Word: angeli
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...vault-like door and issued into the moderate gloom that enshrouds Sections HunL, Oc and Ind (Hungarian Literature, Oceania and Indic Studies). Gridley chuckled sardonically as he walked through the country's largest Hindi collection, musing that Harvard didn't teach the language. Finally he reached his destination, Ang and F. Ang means Angling and F stands for Daniel B. Fearing, a former mayor of Newport who donated, in 1915, several thousand titles having to do with fish and fishing. "What a gold mine," thought Gridley, "everything is here. The sixteenth-century Ius Fluviaticum bound luxuriously in vellum with metal...
...hand scroll showing a series of great palaces is a work of art so intricate that it seems like a series of fantasies by some Oriental Piranesi. Yet recent excavations in Red China have shown that the fountain and palaces really did exist at Sian (old Ch'ang...
...politics, Ch'ang feels that "American university students are ignorant in the extreme." The reason for this is that "the United States is a country full of secret agents. Political persecution is perpetrated in an endless stream." Ch'ang tells his readers that "whoever utters the slightest sound of discontent is immediately suspected as a communist...His fate is thus sealed...
...dearth" of teachers is a strong factor behind these low standards, Ch'ang decides. "Any work is better than teaching; naturally they (college professors) have no heart for teaching." This lack of desire results from "very low salaries." Many teachers are forced to become "walters, to toil as farm hands, or to act as circus clowns...
...view of these numerous abuses, Ch'ang mildly concludes that "American educational enterprises are rotting...