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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in 1547. The exact date is not known, but as Catholics are baptized as soon as possible after birth, it must have been on the 7th or 8th of October, because he was christened in the Church of Santa...
...comparative batting averages to date for the two teams are as follows: Harvard Clark, .312 Gordon, .399 Jenkins, .418 Owen, .317 Hammond, .215 Buell, .274 Burgess, .150 Larrabee, .178 Herrmann, .272 Average .282 Princeton Boohecker, .346 Gorman, .209 Carney, .474 Smith, .324 Jefferies, .276 Emver, .323 Cooper, .305 Berg, .318 Cook, .320 Average...
...result of an eight weeks competition, Gerald Date Dorman '25 of Upper Montclair, N. J., has been appointed Second Assistant Manager of the University tennis team, and George Talbot Goodspeed '25 of Wollaston has been chosen Assistant Manager of the Second tennis team. These appointments are subject to the approval of the Student Council...
...furnished by the Spanish author, Lope de Vega. This remarkable man turned out more than 1,800 plays in the 73 years of his life, and supplemented these by 400-odd "autos sacrementales". He occupied as position of literary dictator similar to that held by Voltaire at a later date and his death was widely mourned as a national calamity. But few men have heard of this author--once universally famous--except as a mere figure in histories of literature. His plays--all but two or three-have been forgotten. And parallel to him in English literature one might mention...
...active interest in a movement to improve the moral standard of Italian literature, and again by a proclamation requesting the observance of the fiftieth anniversary of Alessandro Manzoni's death. His phrasing in this is characteristic: "I desire that, even abroad as in the kingdom, we remember that date by fitting ceremonies." Manzoni is the dominant figure of modern Italian literature; one who has done more for its advance and the standardization of its diction than any other modern writer, and whose chief work "I Promessi Sposi", marks practically the beginning of the Italian novel: Mussolini's choice, as usual...