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Allen D. Sapp '42, Teaching Fellow in Music, arranged for the composition, and recording of the music. Included in the record was a Dryden ode, set to music by Sapp and performed by the University of California chorus under Edward B. Lawton '34 and "Kyrie" by Virgil G. Thomson '22, performed by Fiske University under Harry E. von Bergen...
Brower, an authority on both Greek and English literature, will teach Humanities courses in the General Education program as well as literary subjects in the department of English. His critical interests range from Pindar to modern writers, with special interest in Dryden, the early eighteenth century poets, and Jane Austen. He is the author of "Fields of Light," a study of various literary landmarks from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf...
Dickens used like as a conjunction; Winston Churchill says "This is me"; and authors from Shakespeare to Shaw have followed everyone with a they. Meredith wrote "Who has he come for?" and Dryden said "these kind of thoughts." Byron was forever using don't with a singular subject ("She will come round-mind if she don't"), and Lytton Strachey apparently never mastered the difference between...
After the Chinese Communists took over the city of Chengtu in December 1949, they stirred up an enthusiastic welcome from war-weary students at West China Union University, a 42-year-old interdenominational college run by Chinese and Western Christians. Dr. Dryden L. Phelps, 59, a Baptist missionary with 30 years' experience in China, was as enthusiastic as his students. He thought that the university's energetic reorganization, inspired by the Communists, was "the most profoundly religious Christian experience I have ever been through." He said so in a letter to the Rev. William Howard Melish, Brooklyn Episcopalian...
...such a sensation with her "neat silk leg and pair of holland thighs" that half of the Restoration bucks were bidding for her favors. Hart sold her to Lord Buckhurst, but Nelly didn't like him, and besides, a scepter was already tapping at her door. Poet John Dryden has described some of the charms that caught the royal eye: "Oval face, clear skin, hazel eyes, thick brown eyebrows ... a full nether lip ... the bottom of your cheeks a little blub, and two dimples when you smile." Add to that a firm, small, voluptuous figure. Charles II took...