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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Adams Delano, famed U. S. architect (Delano & Aldrich), speaking before the Architecture Club of London, advised English architects against erecting skyscrapers. Said he: "Americans are gradually being crushed by these monsters. . . . Unless you are ready to swallow our civilization whole, it would seem a mistake to copy any part...
Associate Professor Robert Dudley French of the English department is a teaching professor as well as a scholar. Graduated from Yale in 1910, he returned to teach in 1915. In 1920 he took over a Chaucer course, brushed up its fustiness, livened it, taught it well, increasing the enrolment from 30 to 300 in nine years...
When Dean Wilbur Lucius Cross of the Graduate School announced this fall that he would retire from the faculty at end of the year, a full professorship in the English department was left vacant. After 14 years of well-received teaching at Yale, popular Mr. French hoped that the fruits of his long labors might be rewarded. But another consideration arose last month. He was offered the Provostship of Avon Old Farms, a pretentious two-year-old experimental school at Avon, Conn...
JOURNEY'S END?The fighting English...
Most newspaper stories are written in better English. Yet in spite of his formless, floundering style, Author Dreiser has won recognition as one of the most important U. S. writers. He is so much in earnest such a painstaking student of his fellows, that his stories, weak at almost any given point, have a cumulative strength...