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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lewis, who graduated from Yale in 1886, practiced law in New York until 1895, when he became an instructor of English at Yale. During his 27 years of teaching, he became one of the foremost authorities on the English language in the country. He was the author of several text books on English verse and versification, and was a contributor to many well-known periodicals as well as editor of the "Yale Series of Younger Poets...
...Married in Greenwich, divorced at Reno," has been a commonplace in the last few years. Some people have used it as a text in attacking the institution of marriage. Others, less radical, have used it as a criticism of the inequality of our marriage and divorce laws. It is ridiculous that people should find it legal to do in one part of a country what is illegal in another part-as if morality were determined by state boundaries...
...least one paper in Boston is still able to see the truth and to speak it. The Boston Evening Telegram, in its leading editorial on Saturday, revealed in graphic terms the rotten depths to which Harvard humorists have descended. With the Lampoon's "Town and Country Number" as their text, the editors have exposed once and for all the foulness that has been masquerading in these innocent-appearing pages. It is almost inconceivable that respectable college men should be willing to debase themselves, in the words of the Telegram, to such a "course of racial hatred, religious intolerance and plain...
...Catskill Dutch" was produced originally as one of the regular Workshop plays on December 7 and 8, and with some changes in the text was presented before a large audience at Middlebury College on February 9. The revised form will be used tonight. The play deals with the stern life of the Dutch people living about 1870 in an isolated village in the Catskills of New York...
...recently investigated by a University professor, have disclosed the knowledge that love was a disease well understood even by our ancestors of eight centuries ago, a fact which would seem to eliminate any need for further research; and the popular side is well cared for by the best of text boks on the subject. "Jurgen" and the like, which require no professors to interpret them...