Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prior to his arrival here, Bishop Ingram has spoken at Ames Agricultural College, Chicago University, the Northwestern University at Evanston, and the University of Michigan, besides addressing Church Clubs, English Speaking Unions, and civic organizations. After his engagement here, he plans to visit Brown. Trinity College at Hartford, Columbia. New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton. Tentative engagements include visits to Washington and as far south as the University of the South at Sewance, Teanessee...
...Judge's Husband. After a long, successful tour, William Hodge is back on Broadway starring in his own play. A Connecticut woman Justice henpecks Mr. Hodge, makes him scrub, wash dishes. Hence, naturally, an unexplained visit to Manhattan to investigate an escapade of his turbulent daughter causes suspicion of infidelity. Mother as judge, witness, plaintiff, tries Mr. Hodge for divorce, and upon explanations all around is overcome by belated material passion. Assurances on the program by allegedly potent grey-wigs testify to the plot's "legal possibilities," presumably to sooth lay doubts. Gladys Hanson as the wife...
...rules for women result. Society is ranked by the number and regularity of its members' sides, from formidable isosceles-triangle policemen with sharp apexes, through an equilaterally -triangular bourgeoisie and square professorial, to a polygonal aristocracy and circular priesthood. The narrator is a square professor who, after a visit to the unbelievably benighted residents of one-dimensional Lineland, is introduced to Spaceland by a Sphere. With a great effort, he masters the conception of a Figure moving "up-ward, not northward" out of its plane. Ironically, he cannot persuade the Sphere that perhaps there are yet other dimensions...
...never seeks to impress his audience with the extent of his lore, and his experiences have been so diverse and so keenly felt that there is no need for literary dramatizing. It is enough to be nature's mirror. The first of these essays describes the first visit of man to the Three Arch Rocks off the coast of Oregon, a surf-guarded, craggy home of seals and sea-lions, of murres, puffins, petrels and other seafowl in clamorous clouds. There is a chapter on extinct and vanishing species: the sturgeon and condor; an oil field that yielded...
While Harvard was tasting defeat on Saturday, several of the University's future opponents spent rather drab afternoons. Yale, in conquering Georgia by 19 to 0, showed some glaring weaknesses, while Princeton was lucky to tie Washington and Lee 7 to 7. William and Mary, who visit the Stadium this week, fell before a powerful Syracuse eleven...