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...Balch, instructor in English and tutor in the Division of Modern Languages, will receive a grant for the investigation of English plays and playwrights in France during the eighteenth century. G. L. Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, will receive a part of the assignment for use in connection with his work in collecting the ballads and chanties written by J. M. Carpenter...
...Poetry of the Mid-Eighteenth Century," Professor Elton, Sever...
March 16-21-Eighteenth annual international Flower Show, at Grand Central Palace, Manhattan...
...literature stands first in the number of works acquired, partly because it has perhaps the widest appeal, but chiefly because certain large subscriptions, amounting to $7,500, were specifically given for the purchase of English prose fiction. As a result of this, the collection of English novels of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is rapidly growing, and the students in Professor Greenough's courses in the history of the novel have adequate material to work with. Another considerable sum was devoted to building up the works of Fielding; and further sums were spent on editions of Byron, making...
...just as there was a real foundation for the attacks of the early primitivists against the neo-classicism of eighteenth century France, so there is a great deal of truth in Professor Mearns' criticism of modern pedagogy. He points out that it is instinctive for the child to tell the truth, which is often so embarrassing to the adult, and that the grownup tries to stifle this natural virtue in order to conform to social conventions. As a poet, too, Mr. Mearns believes that the child has possibilities which if encouraged would produce far greater poetry than that which...