Word: critical
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...graduation in 1907, he accepted a position with the Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Company as a book-reviewer. He resigned this post to edit a humorous column for the Boston Traveller, in which capacity he was so successful that at the end of a year he was appointed dramatic critic for the paper. Last year he was a prize-winner in a short-story contest conducted by one of the prominent magazines. He recently completed his first novel, entitled "Seven Keys to Baldpate," which is in the hands of the publishers now and will appear in January...
...four lectures on "Types of Modern Drama" in the Lecture Hall of the Boston Public Library this winter. The lectures are a part of the free public lectures which are given each year at the Library. A series of six lectures on "The Opera", by Mr. Olin Downes, musical critic of the Boston Post, two of which have already been given, will complete this year's series. The lectures will be practical rather than theoretical, and frequent references to current plays in Boston will add local interest...
...studies for the year of his incumbency at the American School of Classic Studies at Athens. The following subjects of theses are proposed by the committee: 1. The Expression of Pathos in Homer. 2. The Dramatic Art of Menander. 3. The Humanism of Euripides. 4. Lucian as a Critic of Art. 5. The Romantic Element in the later Greek Epic. 6. Greek Comedy in the Light of Contemporary Vase-painting. 7. Imperialism and Religion at Athens in the Fifth Century B.C. 8. The Iliupersis in the Work of the Greek Vase-painters. Candidates may, however, write on other classical subjects...
Professor Legouis is an erudite scholar and brilliant critic. He has written on Wordsworth, Chaucer, and English writers of the sixteenth century. He succeeds M. Michel Charles Diehl, who lectured here last year under the new arrangement with French universities...
Moderwell, H. K., music critic...