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Unacknowledged by the Corporation and unknown to himself, Bill Cunningham, Boston's oracular columnist, has become a stern tutor of journalese to two sections of English A students. Immersion in Cunningham's daily articles was prescribed by James a. Walker, instructor in English, who characterized the Boston scribe tersely as "a good mine of irresponsible logical development...
...first memory of college," Cunningham mused, "was such a course taught by a Harvard man named Professor Stearns. My first assignment was to write a description of our rooms. I had the great honor and distinction of having my little offering cited by him as an example of the type of thing he was hoping to get, largely because I used the word 'smite,' as in the phrase 'something smites...
Students in the course were asked to appraise Cunningham's articles, starting with that of April 24th, and to analyze them for contents; "Inaccuracies, deliberate and conscious, unfounded assumptions, circular arguments and non-sequiturs, and for emotional language intended to obscure the issue," and then for style; in "Jargon, bombast, 'fine writing' and wordiness...
...Romance Languages, dean of special students, and director of University Extension, (effective September 1); Louis J. A. Mercier, associate professor of French and Education, (effective September 1); Frederick G. White '19, faculty instructor in English and secretary of the Division of Modern Languages, (effective June 30); William J. Cunningham, James J. Hill Professor of Zoology, as curator of marine invertebrates, (effective June...
Professor Cunningham became a lecturer on Railroad Operation in 1908. By 1915 he had risen to a full professorship in Transportation and the next year he received the James J. Hill chair in that field...