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Three officers for the coming year were chosen last night by the Socialist Club at their annual election. Alden Rogers Whitman '34 of Bridgeport, Connecticut was elected president; Solomon Eliazer Shershevsky '31 of Dorchester, vice-president; and Edward Yarnall Hartshorne '33 of Haverford, Pennsylvania, secretary-treasurer...
...beyond the lack of imagination in the American theatre. Even Eugene O'Neill, the paragon of present day critics, is "an unsatisfactory genius." "--it is as an emotionalist, and not as a thinker, that Mr. O'Neill excels. His strength is of the great, raw, shaggy kind that Whitman's has. It is soberer, starker and infinitely more glim. But it is no less torrential, savage as it is, with the same energy, heavy with the same profusion and cumulative in the same headlong...
Progress: "Intellectual contacts have grown up between our two peoples. Italians fully recognize the contribution made by the United States to modern progress. The name of Edison is familiar to us all; so in the field of letters and philosophy are those of Longfellow, Whitman, Poe, Mark Twain, William James. I myself am a great admirer of Emerson and James. In the field of statesmanship Washington, Franklin and more lately Roosevelt are names which arouse our admiration." Bolshevism: "Our trade relations with Russia are of economic value to us, but they do not affect our internal policies. Fascism and Bolshevism...
...charming Irish wit attracts not only those who seek to be amused but also those intellectuals who appreciate "AE" as the man who, along with Yeats, was a leader of the Irish Renaissance. His flowing beard and imposing personality might suggest to many that he was the "Walt Whitman of Iceland." Different as the poetry of the two men is, they both have much the same magnetism and appeal. Many who are already becoming bored with too much reading period in Widener may well find some worthwhile diversion tonight on the other side of Quincy Street...
...Rauh '32, F. Richardson '31, David Russell '31, F. G. Shaw '31, G. W. Shinney '33, M. S. Sternberg '31, R. J. Strauss '32, B. S. Thompson '33, W. R. Timken '33, A. J. Torrielli '33, E. E. White '32, F. B. White '33, R. C. Whitman '33, and B. S. Wood...