Word: dickens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book is not a novel, but simply a story of the expedition. Between 1910 and the appearance of "Galleons Reach" Tomlinson wrote "Old Junk", "London River", "Waiting for Daylight", "Under the Red Ensign", and "Gifts of Fortune". Many of these were written Dicken's wise,--as sketches which Tomlinson prepared as a journalist for weekly publication. Such is the reputed origin of "Old Junk" and "Waiting for Daylight...
After the Harvard reception, Mr. Pickwick as Dicken's contemporary representative will go to Craigie House, the Cambridge home of his dearly loved Longfellow. Because of the regard with which they held each other as evidenced in affectionate letters and frequent visits Mr. Pickwick will approach the shrine with humble retrospect that here, upon one glorious occasion, Dickens dined with Longfellow. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and Bayard Taylor...
...copy of Gray's "Elegy", first eidtion entitled "An Elegy wrote in a country church yard" was printed in 1751. Encased with this is a manuscript of Dicken's parody...
...written an exquisite story of a midget. It is not a pleasant story, for pitiful stories are not pleasant stories. And the "Memoirs of a Midget" is very and sincerely pitiful. No one has written the life of Zip the "What Is It" to whom Barnum gave fame. Dickens gave a name, and the public gave the vital interest of its perpetual indecorum. But now that Zip is dead and the fellowship of freaks takes on the vestments of usual mourning the need of such a memoir becomes less remote. Zip should be perpetuated. For in a time of mental...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82 of the Department of English will give a special reading for the Graduate School of Education tomorrow evening. After a brief address on "Dicken's Best Book", Professor Copeland will read selections from Dickens and Kipling. The meeting will be held in the Dining Room of the Union at 8.30. It is designed especially for students in the Graduate School of Education and their guests, who are thus accorded a privilege much coveted by University undergraduates and by the alumni of the University...