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...something gripping. As it is, The Great Sebastians is not the least bit grim or gripping-only, now and then, rather ploddingly serious. In itself, in fact, Lindsay & Grouse's "melodramatic comedy" is chiefly a sequence of well-planned opportunities for the Lunts to display their past mastership at all the bright surfacy wrinkles of their profession. If, in time, a blindfolded Lynn Fontanne can identify certain members of the audience, almost any blindfolded member of the audience could identify Actress Fontanne from a single coo. In The Great Sebastians, however, the Lunts' cooing counts for less than...
Following admission to the Mastership came the "Act," origin of our Commencement Parts. The idea was that the complete Master of Arts ought to show his stuff, as it were, before the university let him go. Commencement parts opened in the thirteenth century, as now, with a Latin speech, which was supposed to show as much with as the speaker was capable of. In the later middle ages and Renaissance the object of the salutatory orator was to make the presiding dignitaries as angry as possible with personal remarks and obscene qulps...
Although "the Lord" will be leaving "the manor" this summer when Professor Roger B. Merriman gives up his mastership of Eliot House, indications are that his successor, classicist Professor John H. Finley will continue the traditions which "Frisky," established upon his arrival 11 years...
...Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, has resigned his Mastership after ten years to devote greater time to a treatise he is writing in collaboration with Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English; and President Conant has appointed Leigh Hoadley, professor of Zoology, in his stead...
...mentioned as possibilities for the mastership, Richard M. Gummere '07, Director of Admissions, leads the list. Also discussed have been Dean Hanford, Mason Hammond '25, assistant professor of History and Greek and Latin, James B. Munn '12, Chairman of the English Department, Samuel H. Cross '12, professor of Slavic, Elliot Perkins '23, instructor in History and Literature, and Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation. The order of the names has no bearing on the possibilities of appointment...