Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the tercentenary is over--the heart of any university, whether it is a year or three hundred years old, is the faculty. Can it be that Harvard is senile enough to let that truism slip out of its mind? The news that the University had permitted Bernard De Voto to get away from it I heard with an emotion pretty close to amazement. Mr. De Voto's other students, and anyone else who knows his work, must be similarly amazed...
There are so many mediocre teachers. There are so many at Harvard. Harvard should have hung on to Benny De Voto if it had to offer him Sever Hall with the Memorial Chapel thrown in. I am aware that he resigned in order to accept the editorship of the Saturday Review of Literature. But if a great university has no resources sufficient to retain a teacher it badly needs, a good many young men are going to regret that fact...
...colleagues would call men of letters. But even in his short time he made English 31, or whatever they call it now, clearly the best composition course Harvard has had for many years. Any qualified person will tell you, moreover, that in the field of American literature Mr. De Voto's ability can be equalled only with difficulty. I cannot believe that Harvard does not know what everyone knows . . . He actually made his students think. He made the dullest of them think. The dullest of them hereby testifies that De Voto was the only man he studied under who ever...
Five years ago, horse racing was thrown into an uproar when a horse named Shem, who won a race at Havre de Grace at odds of 52-to-1, was proved to be not Shem but another faster horse named Aknahton, made up to resemble him by an expert "ringer" named Paddy Barrie (TIME, March 21, 1932). When the scandal was exposed, Paddy Barrie was deported and Aknahton was ruled off the track. What had become of the original Shem no one seemed to know...
...Arts in Paris and at that time became Architecte Diplome par le Gouvernment Francais. He served during the greater part of the War, was almost continually in the front line trenches until 1917, and in 1923 was awarded the Legion of Honor. In 1919 he won the Grand Prix de Rome and in 1921 was named Architecte des Batiments Civils...