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...many operas Handel had been so content to write in the set Italian mold. Berlin pointed to the genius of the man who had been able to compose an oratorio like the Messiah. But Chicago was more intent upon Xerxes because of a newcomer to opera-Author Thornton Niven Wilder, who had been persuaded to transcribe the archaic translation and to direct the production. He not only did that but also put himself in the chorus to sing a few notes. Wilder's part came in the second act for which he discarded his spectacles, donned baggy blue trousers...
...second period. The summary: HARVARD MILTON Weeks, Nesmith, Hayden, Moore, l.w. r.w., Forbes, Scaife, Greenough, Field Roberts, Mechem, Sleeper, c. c., Stone, Perkins, Hornblower, Webb Cutter, Pope, Eaton, r.w. l.w., Cunningham, Smith, Sourd, Wright Hicks, Allis, l.d. r.d., Fuller Allen, Russell, r.d. l.d., Johnson, Hamiel Morey, g. g., Wilder, Atkins, Taylor, Borland...
HARVARD MILTON Weeks, l.w. r.w., Scaife Cutter, r.w. l.w., Smith Roberts, c. c., Cunningham Hicks, l.d. r.d., Stone Allen, r.d. l.d., Perkins Watson, g. g., Wilder...
Three other professors will also retire September 1. Milton J. Rosenan, resigning as Charles Wilder Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, organized quarantine units in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The George F. Baker professorship of Economics will be vacated by Charles J. Bullock...
...Author, Tightlipped, long-faced Mark Van Doren, like his three-year junior, Thornton Wilder (see col. 1), learned his songster's art in the gilded academic cage. But his trial flights have been less bold and less successful than Wilder's. Graduate of his native University of Illinois, a Columbia Ph. D., an assistant professor of English at Columbia, he has confined his extracurricular activities to the literary editorship of the Nation (1924-28). critical studies, books of poems...