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...errant lock of hair to the habit of quizzically scratching his ear. And he has some of Rogers' owlish humor. On the opening show, Shriner followed a comic monologue about an Indiana postmaster with a small-town skit that contained liberal borrowings from such poles-apart sources as Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Beneath all the imitative layers is a distinct and often funny Shriner personality, which shows to good advantage in his gentle ribbing of the sponsor's product, Arrow Shirts...
...Music Department will this year have the services of Copland, who succeeds Thornton Wilder as Charles Eliot Norton Professor...
...Warren R. Austin. U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy, Cambridge City Manager John B. Atkinson, University Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf, President of the University of North Carolina and former Army Secretary Gordon Gray, Poet Wallace Stevens '01. Ninety-year old alumnus Godfrey Cabot '82, Writer Thornton Wilder, and U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain and former President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company Walter S. Gifford...
Excerpts from Thornton Wilder's talk at the alumni exercises on Commencement afternoon appear on page 13; sections of Ralph Barton Perry's Phi Beta Kappa address, delivered on Monday of Commencement week, are printed on page...
During Commencement Week two memorable speeches were delivered at the University. On this page are printed excerpts from Ralph Barton Perry's Phi Beta Kappa address, and on the following page is part of Thornton Wilder's Commencement afternoon talk. President Conant called the latter speech "the most significant I have ever heard from an academic man on a Commencement program...