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...telling exactly how he trains a sheep dog ("Once you have taught him stillness, you're getting somewhere"). An orchard foreman navigates his way through the niceties of pruning apple trees. A wheelwright remembers how he used to build wagons ("For making the hubs we always chose wych-elm") and paint them ("The blue rode well in the corn"). The village veterinarian, a sensitive man, contemplates the tortuous ethics of "factory farms," where pigs and chickens are raised assembly style. Wrinkling his brow over incipient inbred cannibalism, he observes darkly: "Tail biting among pigs is becoming a quite incredibly...
...Witch of Wych Street," Mr. Waitzkin sets himself the task of rescuing an almost foundered reputation, and he has not wholly escaped the dangers of the attempt. If Madame Pestalozzi Vestris is so well forgotten as she is, she is probably not worth remembering. But Mr. Waitzkin thinks otherwise, and he makes out an original case for Vestris' social and intellectual on the English drama of her time...
...earliest Harvard graduate who has published a book during these six months is J. Laurence Laughlin '73, who has written "The Federal Reserve Act, Its Origin and Problems." The latest graduate to have published a work is Leo Waltzkin '33, who has written "The Witch of Wych Street...
...Committee on the Publication of Honors Theses in English has decided to publish only one thesis this year: "The Witch of Wych Street," a study of the theatrical reforms of Madame Vestris, by Leo Waitzkin '33. The following theses have appeared in previous years: "Poetical Intoxication," by W. N. Bates '30; "Shakspere and the Ireland Forgeries," by Derk Bodde '30; "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw," by Ayers Brinser '31; "The Creed of a Victorian Pagan," by Robert Peel '31; and "Shilling Shockers of the Gothic School," by W. W. Watt '32. Publication of honors theses is made possible...
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