Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Contemporary publications tell of early progress at Cambridge in Massachusetts. There is a copy of the first printed account of Harvard published at London in 1643. A news item dated January 25, 1764 describes the great fire which destroyed Harvard Hall, "only one of our ancient buildings which still remained, and the repository of our most valuable treasures", the Public Library, and the Philosophical Apparatus. Among the authentic documents there is a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Hancock written September 11, 1755 proposing a general subscription for the benefit of the Library, and enclosing his own subscription of four...
...Vagabond has given up his bounding and sauntering about these days for countless reasons, one of which, or perchance several, are the divisional examinations in Shakespeare, the Bible, and Ancient Authors all of which are looming large on the horizon to plague the prodigal senior. In fact, this valiant columnist forgets all about lending his expert tutelage in matters pertaining to interesting lectures, and seriously sets about the business of aiding the fourth year men in jumping this rather nasty curricular hurdle...
...Warner). A new picture starring Al Jolsonlis known beforehand to be little save a skeletal frame upon which he may hang gags ancient and new, plug sentimental ballads, caper through dance steps and behave in the approved Jolson manner. Big Boy is a cinemized version of the musicomedy of the same name in which he appeared for the Shuberts five years ago, a hackneyed, outlandish tale of a proud Southern family staking all on the Kentucky Derby, blackmailers, a forged check, an errant son, a happy musicomedy ending. Big Boy is the horse on which Jolson as Gus, the maligned...
...That both Warner and Jolson know Jolson's acting limitations is evidenced by two sequences. The first is a flashback to post Civil war days in which Jolson as Gus's grandfather captures a villainous Southern fire-eater and, ahorse, rescues his beauteous young mistress, successfully burlesquing the ancient slave-master tradition. The second is the fade-out?the cast out of character formally grouped on a painted stage with orchestra below and Jolson with his face washed white expressing the wish that his cinema audience enjoyed themselves as much in sitting through the picture as he did in making...
...endeavor to explain Mr. Babbitt's humanism here would be impertinent. Whoever takes his course may see for himself, if he likes. Suffice it to say that Mr. Babbitt is a preacher of proportion and the golden mean. Like the ancient Greeks, he takes as his motto: "Nothing too much". All external standards, such as religion, he throws overboard, and appeals to the wisdom of human experience as the only rule to order life. He shuns as the plague all the emotional ecstasies that break down the rigid self-discipline which is his prescription for all humanity...