Word: woman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, will lecture on woman suffrage under the auspices of the Cambridge Equal Suffrage Society and the Harvard Men's League for Woman Suffrage, in Brattle Hall, tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Tickets for reserved seats may be obtained at Holworthy 2 or Stoughton 11. After 3.55 o'clock the doors will be opened to the public without ticket requirement...
...chief distinction of the number lies in the fiction. C. V. Wright's "The Good Love" is a treatment of the theme of the struggle in a man's affections between the love of a woman and the lure of "the old trail." It is clearly conceived and vividly presented. Mr. Wright is clearly very sensitive to atmosphere, and at times tempted to deal with it to excess, even when it is an essential part of the story. His style would gain in masculinity by a greater restraint in the use of adjectives. In "The Ominous Tract"--a somewhat oracular...
...lecture dealt with the period in Athenian history from Aristophanes to Menander and sketched the literary transition from the fifth to the fourth centuries. As opposed to the Periclean age when man was the pre-eminent personage in Athenian life, woman now begins to occupy the place of prominence. Though the empire was destroyed, Athens still continued to be the capital of the literary life of the age. In her decadence Athens produced more than any other city in its prime. The age was essentially one of prose, reaching the zenith of its development in Plato. Menander produced remarkable comedies...
...lecture with over 80 unusual slides of birds and wild animals, many of them photographed by flash-light. He will give an account of bear trapping and in that connection will tell the remarkable story of a cub, which was brought up as a child by a New Brunswick woman...
...says, "It is a high tribute to the open-mindedness of the Harvard Corporation, and to the potency of Harvard's liberal tradition, that this (the immediate and thorough repression of the Socialist Club, the La Follette Club, the Wilson Club, and, since this is Massachusetts, the League for Woman Suffrage) has not been done". Free discussion is the one thing which will prevent alike riotous radicalism and stolid conservatism, and I am sure most Harvard men will hope with Mr. Henderson that the Corporation will not depart from the traditional Harvard policy of allowing absolue freedom of discussion...