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...losses were: Peter F. Cunningham '39 to S. H. Woolcott; and Francis H. Appleton, 3d, '39 to Robert Saltonstall, Capt, of the Milton Club. This was the first league game for the "B" team...
...play concerns itself with members of that famed set of New Yorkers whose Dean is Alexander Woolcott and whose Patron Saint is Dorothy Parker. It centers about Ann and David, played by Lois Hall of Radcliffe's Idler Club and John Barnard...
...chosen as one of 200 contemporary books to be presented to President Roosevelt Tuesday by the nation's booksellers to supplement the permanent White House library. The committee of judges which made the selections included Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus; Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Alexander Woolcott, Christopher Morely, Julia Peterkin, and William Lyon Phelps. Perry is reported to be one of the Pulitzer Prize committee, although the judges' names have never been officially revealed by Columbia University...
...called upon the superior linguistic and elocutionary knowledge of Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, for an opinion as to the truth or falsity of the remark. Professor Packard was 10th to express himself on such an important point at short notice, and quoted Alexander Woolcott as an exponent of the idea of talking things over with one's self, for which purpose he asked a half hour's grace. This was cheerfully accorded...
...writing of the critics that Mr. Brown is most entertaining and keen. He speaks of criticism as that "lean-to in literature." Woolcott. Young and Nathan who wrote of the modern sex play as "The Adventures of Phallus in Wonderland" are all considered in the light of their critical idiosyncrasies. This section is one of the high spots in the book...