Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Legouis, head of the department of English Literature at the Sorbonne, Paris, to be exchange professor at Harvard during the first half of next year. M. Legouis has written books on Wordsworth, Chaucer and English writers of the sixteenth century. He is an erudite scholar and a brilliant literary critic and will be a notable addition to the department of Comparative Literature. It is not yet known what courses he will conduct...
Again Professor Copeland is to favor us with one of his inimitable readings. To those who have heard "The Bell Buoy," "The Critic," or "John Anderson" (not to mention the frequent requests as to the proper adjustment of ventilation, repression of noises, etc.), Professor Copeland needs no introduction. But for the benefit of all new men we would say that the Union Dining Room has a regrettably limited seating capacity and no one enters after 9 o'clock. We can conceive of no more profitable way of spending this evening than listening to Professor Copeland...
That is, one who goes to see this play should regard it as a story, not a lesson, an evening's entertainment, not a dramatized American problem. Mr. Klein is writing not for the analytical critic but for the story-loving public...
...graduate board consisting of Professor G. P. Baker '87, Mr. Winthrop Ames '95, formerly director of the New Theatre in New York, and Mr. H. T. Parker '90, dramatic critic of the Boston Transcript, will pass on the plays submitted...
When one considers the relative importance of the four major sports and the minor ones, no fair-minded critic will question the right of Cornell's athletes to rank first this year. Yale and Pennsylvania are the only other universities that ever won such high honors in a single year, and when it is considered that Cornell, had some claim to the baseball championship as well, which is here awarded to Princeton, it may be stated that Cornell's 1911 record is just a little bit superior to anything ever done by either Pennsylvania or Yale...