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...must not allow the University to fail in gaining the full advantage of such an endowment by provoking an appointment from within. One of the clearest advantages of this professorship is that it brings to Harvard, in succeeding years, men from without whose viewpoint is it similar in intellectual background, different in that it has developed in another atmosphere among other scenes. It will not be impossible to find such men for this position, uniquely difficult as it is. Cambridge, this last summer, has vibrated to the intense vigor of the too often misunderstood T. S. Eliot. And, though...
...silk threads, wove into it animals, riders, flowers. Horsemen move to and fro, pursuing lions, antelopes, ibexes, boars, hares, foxes, jackals and other beasts; many flowers, some western, some Persian, and some the flowers of no land, riot softly on the ground, or hang from delicate vines. The background is salmon-colored. Around the central field runs a quiet legend. In the middle all js speed: bugles blow there, stallions leap, and the beards of riding Khans shake out like flame along a wind of fruits and blossoms. But the border reposes. Two figures with wings recur regularly among...
...jazz dignified, established. Was not this the Laurence Stallings of What Price Glory? of The Big Parade? Was not this the Franke Harling of A Light from St. Agnes given last winter (TIME, Jan. 4) by the Chicago Civic Opera Co., to his everlasting glory, a composer in whose background the most academic classicism had rubbed elbows with the janglings of Tin Pan Alley?* What limits could there be to the possibilities of Deep River? Last week came the answer when, after a preliminary showing in Lancaster, Pa., it opened in Philadelphia...
...Meighan, Renée Adorée). Tom Meighan, disappointed in a careering U. S. wife, takes to building a bridge in South America. In this task he is inspired by Renee Adoree as a reformed dancing girl. Develops a love affair with the bridge casually suggested in the background. Reenters Friend Wife and Tom agrees to go back to the U. S. Renee, seeing in this the ruin of her love, jumps to death from the bridge- which is regretted, because Tom was only going back to get a divorce, and everyone is sorry to see Renee fade...
Another course given in the first half year, English 78, dealing with the Historical and Intellectual Background of English Literature, will be conducted for the first time by Assistant Professor E. A. Whitney '17. There will also be lectures by Professors C. N. Greenough '98, C. N. Haskins '99, R. B. Merriman '96, and K. B. Murdock...