Word: english
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...following article on Harvard University was written by B. H. Lehman '11, Professor of English in the University of California. It is reprinted from the current issue of the "California Monthly...
...Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Until he was 38 he practiced medicine. Then he began publishing poetry, much of it experimenting in Classical metre.* In 1913, aged 69, he was appointed Poet Laureate by Premier Asquith, succeeding Laureate Alfred Austin. Laureate Bridges is a founder of the Society for Pure English, serves as arbiter of pronunciation in British radio broadcasting...
...Dekobra has motored all through Europe, tiger-hunted in the Congo, canoed up the Nile, translated Daniel DeFoe, Jack London and O. Henry into French. Famed in 15 languages is his novel The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, in which a character reputedly derived from Diana Duff-Cooper, famed English beauty, has very improbable adventures...
Speaking at a Thanksgiving dinner for American students today. Dr. Will Spens, master of Corpus Christi College, expressed a belief that the adoption by Yale and Harvard of the English college system would be likely to fall. The local success of the system could only be maintained after 300 years of experiment and under conditions peculiarly English, he explained...
...urged American educators to make the drastic changes demanded by their own needs instead of turning to England for inspiration and talent. The English system under which the college authorities act independently could not be reconciled with the ownership and management of American universities by a board of trustees. --The Boston Herald...