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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white man has seen it alive. The Eid's deer from Burma are also unusual. There are two sets of antlers of Pere David's deer with the remarkable long black tines; these deer are long since extinct in a wild state and only a few exist, in one English park...
Swarthmore, Pa., Oct. 30-John Livingston Lowes Ph.D. '05 professor of English at Harvard will be the first George Eastman Visiting Professor to the University of Oxford, it was announced here today by Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College and American secretary to the Rhodes trustees. Professor Lowes will lecture at Oxford during the academic year 1930-31. His appointment was officially announced in the Oxford Gazette today...
Professor John Livingston Lowes, who has been chosen to inaugurate the professorship, has been professor of English at Harvard since 1918, and was dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences during 1924-25. He is the author of many notable contributions to English scholarship and criticism, among them being "Convention and Revolt in Poetry" 1919, and "The Road to Zandau", 1927. He will lecture at Oxford in the Honour School of English Language and Literature...
...found in some letter of Pulaski, published in Paris in 1786, a prophecy of the return of Poland to her ancient position of honor among the nations, and of the coming friendship between the French and English peoples...
With these innovations in one of the larger English courses, it becomes more apparent that it is merely a matter of time until the ideal of a constructive reading period will be attained. The present imperfections are still rather glaring, but the new improvements that are offered every year point to it short duration of the present unfortunate experimental period...