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...Scarecrow" is based on Hawthorne's tale of "Feathertop," but is in no way a dramatization of it. "Starting with the same basic theme," Mr. MacKaye writes in his introduction to the published play, "I have sought to elaborate it, by my own treatment, to a different and more inclusive issue." He builds from Hawthorne's satire of coxcombry and charlatanism, "a tragedy of the ludicrous." In Hawthorne, "the scarecrow Feathertop is ridiculous, as the emblem of a superficial fop;" in Mr. MacKaye's play, "the scarecrow Ravensbane is pitiful, as the emblem of human bathos." The play...
...Henry Churchill King, D.D., will speak in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum this evening at 8 o'clock on "Jesus's Conception of the Basic Qualities of Life; a Study of the Beatitudes." This is the fifth of the annual public series of Noble lectures, dealing this year with "The Ethics of Jesus." The final lecture, on Friday evening, will be on the subject: "The Great Motives Underlying the Sermon on the Mount; Summary of the Whole Discussion; has Jesus an Ethical System...
...WILLIAM BELDEN NOBLE LECTURES. "The Ethics of Jesus." V. "Jesus's Conception of the Basic Qualities of Life; a Study of the Beatitudes." President Henry Churchill King, of Oberlin College. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...fifth of the Noble lectures will be given by Dr. King in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. His special subject will be "Jesus's Conception of the Basic Qualities of Life; a Study of the Beatitudes...
...WILLIAM BELDEN NOBLE LECTURES. "The Ethics of Jesus." V. "Jesus's Conception of the Basic Qualities of Life; a Study of the Beatitudes." President Henry Churchill King, of Oberlin College. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...