Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage tremendous demonstrations for "Unser Shakespeare."† But Italy does not have to wait to celebrate the 2,000th birthday of her bard. From toe to top of the boot-shaped Peninsula, last week, prefects of provinces and podestas (mayors) proclaimed the beginning of "six months of tribute" to Virgil...
...Warner, instructor in Anthropology; "Experimental Psychology" by Dr. M. H. Elliott, instructor in Psychology; "Problems of Immigration" by Lincoln Fairley '23, tutor in the field of Philosophy. "Morphology and Anatomy of Woody Plants" by Assistant Professor R. H. Wetmore and Dr. R. H. Woodworth '28: "Homer and Virgil: Theory of the Oral and the Literary Epic" by Dr. Milman Parry: "Elementary Landscape Construction" by M. J. Williams '25, instructor in Landscape Topography; "Mathematical Elements in Art" by Professor G. D. Birkhoff '05: "Advanced Harmony" by A. T. Merritt, assistant in Music: "Higher Mental Processes" by Assistant Professor C. C. Pratt...
Last year's winner was R. H. Jones '30, who gave a selection from "Cyrano de Bergerac," while M. V. Anastos '30 won the Boylston prize for his rendering of "Orpheus and Eurydice" from Virgil's fourth Georgic in Latin. Third and fourth places were taken by H. G. Meyer '30 with a selection from Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" and Carleton Green '30, who recited Tennyson's "Ulysses...
...Sparge, Ph.D., 1926, assistant professor of English, Northwestern University, will study legends, mediaeval and modern, which developed about the name of Virgil, the Latin poet. Randall Thompson '20, composer of music, will do creative work in musical composition, abroad. Dr. C. H. Wesley, Ph.D., 1925, professor of History and head of the Department of History, Howard University, will undertake a study of negro slavery and apprenticeship in the British West Indies, 1807-1836; a study in economic transition...