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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grosseteste was a man of supreme courage violent temper and prone to indiscretion. Yet he was one of the strongest of the reformers within the Church itself, pointing out fearlessly wherein its defects lay even to the extent of laving before Pore Innocent IV and the cardinals a written memorial in which he ascribed all the evils of the church to the malignant influence of the Curia, and violently opposing Rome when I came into conflict with the national clergy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 1/6/1927 | See Source »

...subject suitable for essay treatment may be selected, the whole not to exceed 2500 words in length. Theses written for courses will not be accepted, according to the announcement of the Union management...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Chooses Essay Judges | 1/5/1927 | See Source »

...significant that two rising young politicians like Oliver and Oswald have decided that their chance for a career lies among Laborites. A generation ago they would have turned Liberal. Now that the Liberal party has dwindled to a nothing, the verse of Gilbert & Sullivan must be re-written Today the politicians who matt in England are either "LaborITE or "Con-ser-va-TIVE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oswald & Oliver | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...that two products of like environments should see things so differently in retrospect. How odd that Huck the outcast should write with such contentment while Tom the respected citizen has loathing in his memory and joy, strident because vicarious, only in perfections yet to be. Both the books are written for middle-aging people. Who shall say which is wiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...primitive feelings of mountain people are conscientiously concentrated, but drama is not felt, as it was in Poet Heyward's other story, Porgy (1925), about a purple-black beggar of Charleston. He has let the beauty of his new locale run away with him. What he should have written was an idyl. What he has written is a poetic scenario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

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