Word: dickinson
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...Christian educational influence. Some schools have slipped their Methodist moorings: Baltimore's Goucher, Connecticut's Wesleyan, Nashville's Vanderbilt, and Southern California-often because meddlesome bishops irked trustees and professors. Some colleges were picked up from other churches, for example, Pennsylvania's Allegheny and Dickinson, which fell on hard times after being started by Presbyterians. But after 1900, the Methodists seemed to lose direction...
Trade Terminology. Most of the terms discussed are available in any dictionary or encyclopedia, but Authors Beckson (who teaches English at Fairleigh Dickinson University) and Ganz (who teaches the same at Rutgers) have chosen very lively illustrations for their literary zoology. To explain the IAMB(US), or basic "da DA," of English speech in prose or poetry, they have picked not a respectably well-worn Shakespearean line but A. E. Housman's absurdly memorable
...Dickinson (1,100) ..............Carlisle, Pa. .............................Meth...
...always pleasant and never confusing, and Gordy invented some of the funniest stage bits I've seen around here. He deserves particular credit for giving us a character who couldn't sheathe his sword, after last season in which too many couldn't extract their weapons. Choreographer Theresa Dickinson provided some pleasing dances, and outstanding movement by the policemen's chorus. Offspring of Sir Robert Peel, they and their well-shined escutcheons boast a bend sinister--they are clearly bastard descendants of Mack Sennett. The Keystone Cops had nothing on this crew in hilarity, and DcVoto should get a medieval...
...blunder: if he could move in as "provisional" president, he would permit a board of monitors to oversee Teamster affairs. The resulting consent decree called for the board to consist of one insurgent-appointed monitor, one Teamster-appointed monitor, and a chairman to be named by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts. Ever since, Jimmy Hoffa and his battery of 100 high-priced lawyers have been busy harassing the monitors by legal and other means...