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Poet Jeffers, though gentle (he has never killed an animal) is not shy; though not shy he is not sociable, seeks neither the companionship of old friends nor acquaintanceship with new. Towards local Californians. as toward the human species as a whole, he is reserved, cold...
Spencer, a personal acquaintance of Eliot's, graduated from Princeton in 1923, after which he went to Cambridge University, where he took his English B.A. in 1925. While in England he had exceptional opportunities for acquaintanceship with the younger literary figures. Then the coming speaker did graduate work at Harvard, receiving his Ph.D. here in 1928. Last fall Spencer edited "A Garland for John Denne", published by the University Press, for which Eliot wrote a preface...
...university of some size personal contact with instructors is impossible. This is, to a large extent, true. The intimacy between the teachers and the taught that is bred in a small college is one of its most priceless advantages, while it is well nigh impossible to establish any friendly acquaintanceship at an institution such as Harvard save by some artificial stimulus...
...course aims to establish an acquaintanceship with the basic principles which underlie the subject of real estate. It is designed for men who as brokers, agents, or operators expect to control real property, or who, in the capacity of investors, bankers, or trustees, are likely to be called upon to exercise their judgment with respect to investments in land...
...Scheherazade," indicates a great change from, let us say, ten years ago. At that time, even if there had been a few who could have whistled this music, they would have been razzed into silence by the crowd. But now the crowd regarded it as casually as they did. Acquaintanceship with tunes, of course, is not taste. If we have not developed a nation of music critics, we are well on the way to developing a nation of music sharks...