Word: english
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Spiked running shoes and cinder running paths are English inventions, and hurdle racing, shot-putting and hammer throwing likewise originated in the British Isles; yet, with all its just claims of priority in track and field events, England has never shown any marked superiority...
...capable of instructing in English composition or elementary English for foreigners, in mathematics, modern languages, the physical sciences, music or political science, and desiring the opportunity of contact with workingmen through teaching, should communicate with Arthur Fisher 3L., 20 Winthrop Hall, Cambridge. Details of the work may also be discussed with F. K. Bullard '20 between 8 and 10 o'clock at Phillips Brooks House any week day morning...
Fine Arts and English Included...
...first division is Fine Arts, and includes books on artists and on early Greek sculpture. Secondly comes "Harvard Studies in English," the publication of which has but recently been taken over by the Press. The books in this division deal with the analysis and the place of the various characters of English novels in literature...
Comparable to this group is "Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature," including two books by Professor W. H. Schofield '93, "Chivalry in English Literature," and "Mythical Bards and the Life of William Wallace." The latter book has been but recently written and will be on sale the 15th of the month. It treats of early British folk-lore, with especial emphasis on the tale of William Wallace as set forth by "Blind Harry," practically the only source of our knowledge of the legendary hero's deeds...