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...Bedoctored by both universities, as well as by Scotland's St. Andrews, France's University of Paris, he attached "no importance to these titles." Many a philological pilgrim came respectfully to his villa at Hamlet's Elsinore. For its articles on Language, Philology, Grammar, the Encyclopedia Britannica (see p. 48) turned to Jespersen. He left behind him more than a score of lively books in several tongues. His magnum opus: Modern English Grammar (4 vols...
...current (24-volume) Britannica contains more than 35,000,000 words on 41,000 topics, gives Women six separate articles, is now certain about California. The Britannica has been popularized. And if, as some critics feel, its scholarship has not its full earlier vigor, it has survived the mail-order interlude...
Nobody seems to know the exact day, but this month the Encyclopedia Britannica celebrates its 175th birthday. The unique educational institution is not what it used to be. Even its nationality has changed with time. Founded in Scotland, the Britannica now belongs to the University of Chicago, to which it came as a gift from Sears, Roebuck (TIME...
...Britannica's first (three-volume) edition was issued by a three-man "society of gentlemen," was restricted to art and science, contained no biographical or historical pieces, brushed off Women in three words ("female of man"), was "uncertain" whether California, ". . . be a peninsula or an island...
...syncopation, American Jazz Music-a phonograph addict who plays the trombone with more vigor than skill. The Music researcher is Mary Gleason, who studied at Smith, Columbia and Trinity College, Dublin, was secretary to the dean of the American University of Beirut, Syria, and later researched for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in London...