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Speaking informally to the Harvard Memorial Society, Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, read Tennyson's "Ulysses" and gave his reminiscences of well-known Harvard figures. The meeting was in honor of Professor Copeland's coming Seventy-fifth birthday...
...handsome son-in-law David K. E. Bruce held almost every day for newshawks, the frosty old financier tried to warm up by explaining that Daughter Ailsa had named her personal holding company Ascalot "because people ask a lot." Then, as the newshawks tittered, he added gravely: "That and Tennyson, you know...
...PEEPSHOW?F. Tennyson Jesse ? Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Readers who know that Fryn Tennyson Jesse is a woman, the grandniece of the late Alfred, Lord Tennyson and a versatile author in her own right, will expect something unusual from A Pin to See the Peepshow. Readers to whom she is not even a name may be agreeably surprised at the bright zest of its introductory pages, increasingly depressed as its long middle section threatens to turn hopelessly humdrum. But they will do well to persevere. From boring realism the story finally emerges into agonizing, deeply moving life...
...annually read to its members at about this time. But contrary to his usual custom, this year he is announcing beforehand some of the selections which he has chosen. Among them are Browning's "Epistle of Karshish" and "Up at a Vills," Keate' "Ode to a Nightingale," and Tennyson's "Ballad of the Revenge." As Copey intends to read only poetry, he is especially cager that all those who have real interest in that field be present...
Look over the next in the series. In all eighty-seven authors are represented, with New England leading. But Dickens and Thackeray, Charles Kingsley and Jean Ingelow, Tennyson, even the London Times, are in the list. Whittler tells about "the fish I didn't catch," and Tom Hood about "faithless Nelly Grey...