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...PEDLAR'S PROGRESS : THE LIFE OF BRONSON ALCOTT - Odell Shepard - Little, Brown...
...with, he is known now, if at all. as the father of Louisa May Alcott, best-selling author (Little Women, Little Men). It is Biographer Shepard's well-presented thesis that Bronson Alcott is one of America's almost-forgotten great men. An ably-written, authoritative book, Pedlar's Progress deserves every penny of its $5,000 prize (Little, Brown Centenary), will fit snugly on the same shelf with Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England (TIME...
...Alcott had a good old-fashioned pastoral upbringing but little school. His immortal longings were not bounded by the farm's horizon: he was determined to better not only himself but the world. At 19 he left home to find himself and make his fortune, went as a pedlar of Yankee notions into the South. The hospitable Southerners took him in, taught him manners, lent him books. Commercially, his trips were a signal failure: when he stopped peddling to take up schoolteaching he owed his hard-pressed father $600. But he had learned more than any college could have...
...stage has been erected in front of the squash courts for the performance and chairs will be placed on the triangular park for the audience. The program: 1. Selections Harvard Glee Club T. Flint, Conductor Shoot, False Love Morley Folk Songs Crudele Irene Italian The Pedlar Russian Bonnie Dundee Scottish 2. Pyorrhean Sorority LeGrand L. Thurber Gur Hayes Francis F. Cary William Atrens Von Schrader "The Argentines and the Greeks" "The Flying Trapeze" 3. Violin Selections Malcolm Holmes Ave Maria Schubert Mazurka in G Major Wieneawski 4. Subway Scene in Pantemime with Apologies George R. Shaw, 2d 5. Selections Harvard...
...weather conditions permit, the Glee Club will present its first Yard concert of the year on the Widener steps this evening at 7 o'clock. The program is as follows: Ye watchers, Ye Holy Ones xvii Century German Song Drake's Drums Allegri Choruses from the Gondoliers Sullivan The Pedlar Russian Folk Song When His Loud Voice Handel College Songs...