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When asked what undergraduates should be reading, he listed his quintessential canonical authors??€”Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope and Samuel Richardson, among them—“the great authors of the language...
...decidedly melancholic and despondent psyche of the victim, in reality he was no wet blanket. On the contrary, as Wood points out, the witty Greene had a sense of humor about him and was known to enter (and even win) satire contests devoted to mimicking the style of famous authors??€”including himself...
...four authors??€”including Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby and Professor of Public Policy Christopher N. Avery—ranked 105 colleges using information on 3,240 students provided confidentially by high school college counselors nationwide. The study focuses on the decisions the students made in choosing between different schools...
Both Avery and Hoxby said that they and their co-authors??€”Professors Mark E. Glickman of Boston University and Andrew Metrick of the University of Pennsylvania—did not necessarily set out to create a replacement for U.S. News’ rankings...
...conscientious and invested teacher, Davis challenged her students to use language precisely to express themselves. She did not hesitate to criticize famous authors??€™ grammar even though she never graduated from college. Davis kept a file of grammatical mistakes from newspapers to share with her classes...