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...carry lifetime tenure, the crusading author of the "clean politics" act that has immortalized his name in U.S. politics still hoped to give his fellow judges an occasional helping hand in court. Said he with judicial precision: "When I retired, I did not resign." - On an inspection tour of Dublin's newest national monument- a restoration of Kilmainham Jail that epitomized British domination - Eire's President Eamon de Valera, 79, came not as a stranger. "The Long Fella" himself was the last prisoner to stride from behind its walls into the dawn of Irish freedom in 1924. Said...
...greatest tribute The Playboy has received was the riot it occasioned at its Dublin opening in 1907. The Irish nationalists who felt so keenly that the play represented an insult to the honor of their country that they had to shout down the actors were justified. The immorality of Synge's peasants (they admire a murderer and use words like "shift") was only the ostensible cause of the outrage; what fired the wrath of the groundlings was the fact that Synges' peasants are neither squalid nor maudlin, are not, in other words, the stock stage peasants. (Lorca is the only...
...Tans, the rebellion bred more than enough heroes and martyrs to fill all the pedestals that remained when the Irish finished dynamiting English statuary. It boasted as many wits and eccentrics, from the unknown patriot who dubbed Queen Victoria "The Famine Queen," to Robert Bolton, who escaped from Dublin's Mount joy Prison after leaving a note explaining politely that the accommodations were below his accustomed standard...
...Quincy House and Dayton, Ohio, was chosen president in the Harvard Dramatic Club elections. He hopes to make H.D.C. act not only as a producing group but also as an arbiter for Harvard drama in general. Thomas E. Vachon '63 was named vice-president and Sarah C. Dublin '63 secretary-treasurer...
...answer to the complaint made against box lunches, Mrs. Bunting gave the student representatives, Merry A. Isaac's '63 and Sarah C. Dublin '63, permission to contact the College dietitian. The girls will request a box lunch plan similar to that at Harvard, whereby students may choose among several possible sandwiches. At present, one lunch is given to everyone each...