Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Distinguished gentlemen, dan gling golden keys from their watch-chains, made pilgrimage into his toric Virginia, to listen at Williamsburg to the mellow accents of Dr. Henry van Dyke, Princeton poet-patriarch; to hear a sweet-voweled memorial poem by Dr. John Erskine of Columbia (author, The Private Life of Helen of Troy and Galahad) ; to attend the prophetic utterance of Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing, president emeritus of Western Reserve University and president of Phi Beta Kappa, who dedicated before the gathering that scholarly brotherhood's $100,000 memorial auditorium. Dr. Oscar M. Voorhees, secretary...
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...Patriarch" was composed last year and was presented by the Yale dramatic company before a special committee which is required to pass judgment on all production of the Department of Drama. The new play was unanimously approved by the trial audience...
...special prologue for "The Patriarch" has been written by Lee Wilson Dodd, and during the summer the play itself was revised slightly according to suggestions made by the viewing committee at the trial performance. The success of Professor Baker's management at Yale will assure a capable company for the play. It has been called a difficult drama for amateur actors and the presentation will tax the skill of the Yale Thespians...
...performances of "The Patriarch" will be given on December 11. At the evening show, all former members of Professor Baker's "47' Workshop at Harvard are invited to be present. The last dedicatory night on December 13 will be for Yale undergraduates. If it becomes evident that more people wish to witness the play, a fifth and sixth performance will be scheduled. Special invitations are to be sent out for all but the last production...