Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following resolution in regard to the proposed Memorial Chapel was passed unanimously at the Liberal Club last night. A motion was also passed to write out a petition based upon the resolution to be sent to the President and Fellows of Harvard University in protest against the proposed plans. The resolution...
...lawmaking, but he is consistent. He believes that the reform wave of the last two decades, which would create laws and Federal bureaus to cure every popular ill, is mischievous. If this is continued to its ultimate complexity, every time a citizen has a toe ache he will write to his Congressman to put through a bill creating a staff of Federal doctors to soothe such maladies. Senator Reed would have better execution of the existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over the land like the lice of Egypt." For the same...
...CHARLES, KING OF ENGLAND-John Drinkwater-Doran ($5). Mr. Drinkwater, entirely suave in pen and person, has chosen very happily to write about Charles II. Posterity, with invincible gaucherie, remembers Charles as "The Merry Monarch," as the popularizer of a certain breed of spaniel, and as the only man or monarch to whom Miss Eleanor Gwyn* was ever faithful. Mr. Drinkwater does not forget the spaniels nor Nell Gwyn, but he remembers Mr. Charles...
...opportunity to study and write the American professor today is at a disadvantage as compared with his European colleague. If he conducts a course his class meetings are more frequent. Whether he lectures or tutors, his academic year runs to something like nine months, while in Europe it is six or seven. Our college year is too firmly fixed to be curtailed; and few would desired to shorten it if the change meant that the college plant and the college students would be unused and idle longer than they are now. If our teachers are to do their share...
Stigma. Last year when they both acted in The Makropoulos Secret, Donald Duff was inspired to write a play for Joanna Roos. He called it Stigma, produced it himself, acts in it and helps direct. Miss Roos also appears. The youthful hero, a Rhodes scholar, declares all colors and conditions of women are equal in his sight, proves his preaching by practicing it upon a professor's wife and her Negro maid. The maid begets a child, the wife goes crazy, the theory goes wrong. With such material, a play must achieve sublimity or absurdity. The professor...