Word: ture
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WILD MARRIAGE-B. H. Lehrm Harper ($2.00). Mr. Lehman, a ture Harvard graduate, sketches easily. He exhibits a venerable insitution as background for a gently satirical study in motives. Professors, if musty, are mellow. Undergraduates, if callow, are traditionally precocious. College evils; however undesireable are not tragic. anbridge conventions if stifling, are sincere. The story itself, slightly artificial but cleverly told, is a product of older Harvard : Elam Dunster, great-great-grandsired by a Harvard president returns to his professor-father from a sophisticated childhood in Europe with his runaway mother and her lover. He discovers a quixotic passion...
...Jubilee Advisory Committee; Alexander Donald of Milton, Vice President of the Dinner Committee: Laurence Hayden Duggan of New York City, Chairman of the Smoker Committee; Nathaniel Hamlen of Boston, Chairman of the Dinner Committee; Joseph Delano Hitch Jr. of Denver, Col., Vice-Chairman of the Dinner Committee; Carl Gustave Ture Lundell of Dorchester, Chairman of the Foreign Students Committee; John Livermore Prescott of Norwood, Business Chairman of the Red Book Supplement; and Isadore Zarakov, Sub-Chairman of the Smoker Committee...
Stoughton Aids are granted to Carl Gustave Ture Lundell '27, Aaron Prigot '27, John Herrstrom '26, Herbert Lawrence '26, and Walter Fitzgerald '26, all of Dorchester...
Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass. Founded 1881 as an incubator for Wellesley College matriculants. Headmistress: Helen Temple Cooke. Specialties: "The highest ideals of womanhood, Thorough Scholarship, General Cul ture." In the college town of Wellesley, Dana Hall girls can be distinguished from the Welleslilassies by the hats they are oibliged to wear when walking...
...Significance. In this novel, Mr. Hergesheimer does not borrow from a century but presents it. He has achieved a book that has the tex ture of velvet and the rigor of bright iron. His method of dating the narrative with politics and giving history's skeleton,' flesh and wit in the lives of his characters is, though a difficult artifice, perfectly persuasive. To say that we have advanced in our system of government since Revolutionary times is to say that Jefferson was right and Richard Bale was wrong. It is an opinion generally accepted. Mr. Hergeheimer, indeed, holds...