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...with much pleasure that I noticed in your editorial of last Saturday entitled Oh, Sugar!" the laudable success achieved by the "descendants of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona'" in abolishing seventy-five percent of the profanity in their city. I fully agree with your statements that "such heroics should not pass unnoticed", and that this matter concerning profanity is something for "all sober-minded Harvard 'men" to think about. However, it was too bad that you should introduce such child's play in your last remarks; and, above all, that you had to bring in that much-strained joke...
...descendants of Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" have lost none of their gentility. What is more, they have organized a crusade against the use of profanity in the city, and report a remarkable success attending their efforts. The committee declares that by actual statistics 75 percent of the bad language which was once heard has now been abolished, and although the prospects for a complete purification seem small, the reformers hope to succeed eventually. When Verona has been purged, their efforts will be extended to other cities, and bit by bit they hope to see the movement spread over...
Tristam Burges Souther '04, of Essex Fells, N. J., died suddenly following a game of hockey on Verona Lake near Montclair, N. J., on the afternoon of December 31. Overexertion in a strenuous game which he played is believed to be the cause of the sudden illness which caused his death. He was 32 years of age and is survived by a widow and one child...
...exhibition of pictures of the buildings of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, loaned by the Fogg Art Museum and Mr. E. W. Forbes '95, has replaced the engravings of the palaces of Mantus and Verona which have been on exhibition in the Periodical Room of the Union. This collection gives an excellent idea of the charm and beauty of these universities...
...treatises of Aeneas Sylvius, and its practice illustrated by the writings of Vittorino Guarino and others. But these men were theorists; far greater were the two teachers who exemplify the practice of learning, though they refrain from embodying it in any formal treatise, --Vittorino da Feltre and Guarino of Verona. Both founded schools in Italy and both, by advocating a liberal education--bodily as well as mental exercise, Greek as well as the Latin culture--together taught the many scholars who for centuries kept alive their fame. From these two men and their successors, Ferrara and Vittoria Colona, proceed...