Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This choice specimen of local inanity appeared last night in the columns of the Transcript as a portion of the letter written to Governor Fuller by another gentleman interested in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, namely, one Chandler Hovey, stock-broker. On a day when college professors and men from the world of business meet to dedicate the new buildings of the School of Business Administration such maladroit cerebration loses its humor in its speciousness...
...following article on Beethoven was written by W. R. Spalding '87, Professor of Music in the University, for the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, and is in part reprinted here with permission...
...Sunday Times Book Review. He is a contributor to various magazines as well as to the Forum, and his weekly critical articles in the Times make him at least as well known as any other writer of open letters. He has been in the American Diplomatic Service, he has written a book on international politics, and he specialized in history at Yale, both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student...
...least Halliburton relates a visit to Rupert Brooke's grave at Skyros. Of all the Playboy's heroes, Poet Brooke seems to be the most genuine. But Poet Byron comes a close second: "Lord Byron once wrote that he would rather have swum the Hellespont than written all his poetry. So would...
...envy prodigious Edward John Trelawny, of whom Mr. Halliburton is a slim, blonde, unbearded re-edition. For the Trelawny love of violence-he slaughtered Malays, bashed Turks-is substituted, or at least talked a great deal about, a love of Romance-and of "good copy." Both have written with an (extravagance surpassing mere boastfulness and Playboy Halliburton, though constantly referring to himself as "such a nut" and "incorrigible" and "foolish," has the editorial wit to push a lot of his playfulness off on various traveling companions. Also, knowing his public, Author Halliburton carefully explains that whenever the companion happened...