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English 7--English Literature from 1700 to the Death of Swift, announced as a full course, will not be given in the second half-year, but will count as a half-course for the first half-year. Professor Hurlbut...
Twelfth Night. An ingeniously designed set of scenery permits a swift running-together of scenes in Eva Le Gallienne's production, thus adding greatly to the buoyancy of the presentation. In other people's productions of Twelfth Night, the complicated fortunes of Viola, the shipwrecked maid, in love with the Duke of Illyria in love with the proud Olivia in love with the shipwrecked maid impersonating her twin brother are too frequently allowed to lag into slow comedy only partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy...
...Harry Pratt Judson of the University of Chicago was there, and Dr. James H. Breasted, famed Egyptologist. Drs. Shailer Mathews and Theodore G. Scares of the Chicago University divinity school, and Maurice L. Goodkind of the medical school, were there. So were Lessing Rosenthal, Dr. Louis Mann, Harold H. Swift and other important Chicago south-siders-all at the home of Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist, for a party as distinguished as it was unusual...
...hand and, without asking, correctly stated the name of his dead mother: "Augusta Hammerslough Rosenwald." Dr. Goodkind thought of the medical term for a rare disease, a term occupying several lines of newsprint. Mr. Khaldah concentrated, could not pronounce the term but spelled it out correctly. Mr. Swift was informed of the date and place of his father's birth. Dr. Breasted wrote out a sentence in Arabian and hid it. Mr. Khaldah recited it sight unseen. He stood 20 or 30 feet from his marveling audience and drew for them geometrical designs they pictured mentally; uttered correctly combinations...
...Clarence Dillon is noted for his swift cavalry-like flank attacks. Thus, it was said that not until two days before the purchase of these bonds did he bother his head about them...