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...Webster '93, assistant professor of English, is also in Oxford now, it was learned. He is spending the first half-year abroad on leave of absence, and is now the guest of the Gilbert Murrays. Mr. Murray, the distinguished English translator and critic, was the first incumbent of the Norton Chair at Harvard five years...
...Casseres characterizes himself as a critic of, "intuitional tastes . . who does not analyze or weigh, but apotheosizes or slays". It is just such treatment he gives Mr. Mencken. He speaks of him as one who, "has everywhere an implied, if not explicit, contempt for those who use any dodge to escape reality. There is something tremendously courageous, almost sadistically so, in this attitude. It is probable, with him, that reality itself is an escape from something he fears more--sentiment, romance, mysticism... "Mencken never describes anything, he tears it to pieces and throws it in your face... His aesthetic...
Bernard Fay, distinguished French author and critic, will give the first of the Morris Gray Talks on Modern Poetry on the evening of November 12, it was announced yesterday by G. P. Winship '93, Assistant Librarian of Widener. On that occasion the meeting will be held in the Exhibition Room of the College Library, where for the first time a large number of undergraduates will be admitted. The Exhibition Room is the old Treasure Room, to the right of the main foyer in Widener...
Clayton Hamilton, dramatic critic and author, will lecture on "The Jew that Shakespeare Drew" in Harvard Hall, Friday at 4 o'clock. The lecture will be given under the auspices of the Cambridge School of the Drama and will be open to the public...
Hamilton, who is a well-known lecturer, is dramatic critic and assistant editor of the "Forum" as well as drama editor of "The Brooklyn" and an assisting editor in the Goldwyn Studios in Hollywood, California. Among his writings on the theatre are "Theory of the Theatre", "Seen on the Stage", "Conversations on Contemporary Drama", and "Problems of a Playwright...