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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Robert A. Bartlett, in charge of the schooner Morrissey on the Putnam expedition to the Arctic last summer will relate some of his adventures in northern Greenland at the Union tomorrow night. Captain Bartlett is among those who figure largely in the books written about the expedition by David Bruney Putnam, aged...
...display also is a copy of Gray's "Odes" that was owned by Lord Byron when he was 16 years of age. In this is Byron's signature written in his longhand...
...KING'S HENCHMAN-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper ($2). Folk who must bide their time to hear how Composer Deems Taylor upheld his end of a notable collaboration, will wonder, reading this play, which was written first, his music or the Millay words? If she followed him, he must have written right beautifully. If he followed her, the music needed little more than orchestrating. In the speeches set down here, scarcely a line falls upon the ear without touching a clear note-a misty whitethorn treble, superstitious minors, full-throated, Beowulfian bass. Had the Metropolitan singers at last fortnight...
Thomas Hardy has said that the U. S. is notable only for skyscrapers and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Poetess Elinor Wylie has likened her friend to the peculiarly American sea off the coast of Maine, where much of The Henchman was written. Both these admirers were trying to express their feeling that Miss Millay is racially important; that, burning her candle early and late, for light of love and long hours of devoted folk-scholarship, she embodies both the high, bright folly and the brave integrity of a race given equally to deeds and dreaming...
...probable that Professor Copeland will be confined to the hospital for about four weeks, according to his physicians although it may be possible for him to grade some of the papers written by the students in English 5. Contrary to previous announcements he may even be able to resume his regular duties in the college sometime after the spring vacation, which ends April...