Word: dyers
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These machines get their greatest play during the week between terms when class standings, grades, and course enrollments must be compiled. "Before the war," remarked Henry S. Dyer, Assistant Dean, "there was four months for a crew of extras, working with hand-methods, to perform the various functions incident to cleaning up the records of one year and preparing the records of the next. Now the same job, with new complications introduced by the advent of V-12 students, is completed in the one week between terms." The day before grades come out, Harvard's 10,000 course cards pass...
Dean Buck has been named chairman of the committee and John H. Finley, Jr. '25, associate professor of Greek and Latin is vice-chairman Other members are: Raphael Demos '19, associate professor of Philosophy; John T. Dunlop, faculty instructor in Economics; John M. Gaus '17, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning; Leigh Hoadley, professor of English; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History; Robert Ulich, professor of Education; Howard F. Wilson, associate professor of Education; and Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., associate professor of Government...
WILL SHAKSPERE AND THE DYER'S HAND -Alden Brooks-Scribner...
Most recent hunter of the Shakespeare snark is Alden Brooks, born in Cleveland, Ohio. His 700-page Will Shakspere and the Dyer's Hand is his second try at unmasking Shakespeare, and the result of 20 years' sniffing among Shakespearean data. Stern, relentless Alden Brooks takes a poor view of the accused. He depicts Shakespeare as a butcher's son in Stratford, "a country youth who has to leave school early in order to assist his father in the killing of cattle . . . one who sows his wild oats so liberally that he must, first, marry against...
Meanwhile a grey-haired courtier with "wrinkled visage, deep-set eyes . . . walked nervously in the gardens" a stone's throw from Will's brothel. The courtier's name was Sir Edward Dyer, known to literati mainly as the author of a rather smug poem called My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is. No one guessed his secret, but for years, says Author Brooks, Dyer had been getting Shakespeare to buy bad plays for him and had rewritten them into the classics we read today. As a gentleman, Dyer had naturally not wanted his name connected with...