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...sing some selections from its repertoire in the Junior Common Room. The dinner to which the whole House has been invited, with President Lowell as guest of honor, will he followed by songs from Dr. A. T. Davison's chorus, and by the reading of a poem entitled, "The Epic of Epics", written by a member of the House, and recited by him in the disguise of Santa Claus...
Since the days of Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) many a poet has aspired to write the American epic. Latest to throw his black Mexican hat into the ring is Phelps Putnam, whose hero, Bill Williams, is wandering through America, which he frankly characterizes as Hell. To Bill's amours and rowdy friends, a small number of readers were first introduced when Poet Putnam's Trine appeared in 1927. In The Five Seasons, Bill no longer is a mere collection of verse, but emerges as an American character to whom Epicist Putnam has dedicated his life...
First in Honor Mods a year and two thirds, or five terms, of epic, drama, and oratory. Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles Aoschylus, Homer, Lucretius, Demosthenes and Cicero. Remember that he is quite capable of getting through the thousand odd lines of the "Bacchae" in one long night when he first appears in Oxford. Then on this foundation Greats--two years and a third, or seven terms of history and philosophy. Thucydides, Herodotus, Livy, and Tacitus, and most of all Plato's "Republic" and Aristotle's "Nichomachean Ethics." This is supplemented by Bury and Meyer in Greek history and by Descartes, Hume...
...oldsters ... in the cast, it would be the surest safeguard . . . against the critics. . . ." So says seasoned Marie Dressier. Director Wesley Ruggles (Cimarron) shares her respect for young actors. In Are These Our Children? which he wrote himself, he takes a cast mostly under 18, guides them through a depressing epic of juvenile delinquency which ends at the electric chair. His story corresponds roughly to the one which any newsreader detects between the lines of items concerning adolescent bandits, schoolboy murderers and other such. It tells about a boy (Eric Linden) who, failing to win a high-school prize for oratory...
...Crimson has certainly had no particular success, since Both will be restricted in his activities by a strained ligament and the stellar Blue center, Malin, is undoubtedly out of the game. On the other hand, Harvard, in spite of its last two hard contests, will be entering the epic clash with full strength, Dean being the only doubtful...