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...winners of Saturday's competition are: William T. Dean, Jr. '37, who will give Nicholas Murray Butler's "The Isolated Life"; Robert Dunn '37, giving "A Song of Unending Sorrow," translated from the Chinese by Witter Bynner; Paul Killiam, Jr. '37, who will give an excerpt from Maurice Baring's "Essay on Poetry and Moods of the Public"; Henry V. Poor '36, who will give "The Hound of Heaven," by Francis Thompson; Shepherd Robinson '36, who will give excerpts from James Bryant Conant's 1934 Baccalaureate Sermon; Robert A. Robinson '35, who will give excerpts from Charles Evans Hughes' "Tribute...
...Witter Bynner's poetic phizog labeled as Alfred Neumann (TIME...
Died. Professor George Pierce Baker, 68, famed teacher of playwrights; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1902, teaching English 47 at Harvard, he let a group of pupils headed by Witter Bynner submit original plays instead of term-end theses. In 1912 Professor Baker's "47 Workshop" was formally organized with cramped working quarters and a small theatre. Professor Baker in 1925 accepted Yale's offer to run its luxurious new $125,000 theatre and drama school. He retired in 1933. Some Baker students: Eugene O'Neill, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, Winthrop Ames, Robert Edmond Jones, Robert Benchley...
...summary: 1937 NEW HAMPSHIRE '37 Stevenson, rf. rf., Bishop, Chadokosky Moser, lf. lf., Witter Gray, c. c., Rogean Field, Witherspoon, rg. rg., Hepworth, Nathanson Mason, lg. lg., Webb, Niggerman, Quadron...
...Author. In 1916 "Emanuel Morgan" and "Anne Knish" published Spectra, a little book of free verse so cleverly written it fooled many a critic into serious praise. "Anne Knish" was Arthur Davison Ficke; "Emanuel Morgan" was Witter Bynner. A Harvardman, tall and dark, with a high, shining forehead, Bynner has been through the literary mill: as assistant editor of McClure's Magazine, advisory editor to publishers, instructor of English, lecturer on poetry. His two sidelines are poetry and American-Indian and Chinese art. With Kiang Kang-hu he translated a Chinese anthology, Jade Mountain. He lives in Santa...