Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author Langston Hughes, bitterly assailing those members of his race whom he considers a pale reflection of white civilization. Meeting upper-level Negroes of Washington, D. C., Mr. Hughes found them critical of Jean Toomer, Rudolph Fisher and Zora Hurston, Negro novelists, of many another Negro author who has written realistic, often tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they objected to Negro Artist Winold Reiss's drawings of Negroes because he "made his colored...
Advertising men hustled him to luncheon at the Manhattan Advertising Club. He gave them a tapestry for their club. Later he presented many a friend with a slim gilt-covered volume that he had written. It contained "epigrams" like the ones Charles Archbold of the National Refining Co. writes for the slate which the wooden boy holds up in front of National Refining gasoline stations. Samples of Sir Charles Frederick's wit: "Love is fanned by a bank draft"; "Crossed cheques cheer cross women"; "A leaf began the fall"; "A little blonde is a dangerous thing"; "There...
...interview, Edouard Champion, French publisher who gave four lectures at Harvard last December, gives several interesting reactions to American people and institutions in general and Harvard University in particular. The interview, which was written by Pierre Langaree, was printed in L'Action Francaise of February 3. The translation of M. Champion's impressions follows...
...innovations in English A will be effected shortly after the Spring recess, it was announced yesterday. These will be a debate staged between three sections in the argumentation group, and the releasing for the stage, of a drama, written by a student in the dramatic group...
Over 170 additions have been made since December 9, 1926, to the fast-growing list of books written by Harvard men, it became known in a list published in the current number of the Alumni Bulletin. The oldest alumnus to publish a work was Judge Robert Grand '73, with his "Occasional Verses". The oungest alumnus was Montgomery Major '25 with a volume of children's stories entitled "Merry Christmas Stories...