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Besides informal discussions, the continuance of the formal lectures inaugurated last term by Bernard De Voto's talks on the American historical novel was announced...
...national wealth that actually enters into the collective possessions of modern peoples is their national debt"). Generous to his colleagues on The Saturday Review of Literature, he gives two pages to William Rose Benet, almost three pages to Stephen Vincent Benet, a half-page each to Editor Bernard De Voto and ex-Editor Henry Seidel Canby, a page to himself. The Morley Bartlett includes enough contemporary wisecracks. ephemeral fragments of minor living poets, to make other future revisions seem likely, but it shows that a few moderns (Thomas Mann, Bernard Shaw, Henry Adams) are as quotable as the giants...
After the meeting it was announced that the winner of the November 15 examination would be known on December 6. This is the date of the first of the free lectures by Bernard De Voto, the other two coming on December 8 and 10. In conjunction with the History plan, these lectures will be given in the new Lecture Hall, at 8 o'clock in the evening and will be broadcast short wave. The name of the History examination winner will be announced just before the first of these lectures and will also be broadcast...
...Voto, whose general topic will be "The American Historical Novel" was chosen by the committee on the extracurricular reading program in American History. Scheduled for December 6, 8, and 10, the three addresses will be open to all members of the University and to the general public...
Accompanying the announcement of the De Voto lectures was the release that Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, also will give a series of speeches in the spring on a subject to be made public later...