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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many topsy-turvy situations created by the European war involves Theodore Spencer, who will teach here this year as visiting lecturer in English. Up to last June he held the post of assistant professor of English...
Last June Spencer resigned his position, despite the fact that his concluding appointment had another year to run, to go to Cambridge University, England. There he was to take up a life appointment as visiting lecturer in English literature...
...early spring in the mountains, and high, snow-cowled hotels are full of happy skiers. In her big chalet the American-born Countess, swanlike, impoverished and tired, presides over her porcelain shepherdesses and her American, English and French girl boarders. In the evening the handsome, resolutely corseted General will come to dazzle the girls at dinner and spend the night secretly with the Countess...
...written a prize play, two short novels, The Age of the Fish and A Child of Our Time. These had given him a European reputation as one of the most gifted German writers of his generation. That reputation was confirmed by most U. S. critics last February with the English translation of The Age of the Fish, a poetic, Dostoevskian Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in which a young German schoolmaster discovers the maggots in Nazi morality...
...meeting of the class of '43 on Saturday morning, Dean Hanford gave the newcomers a number of tips on arranging their schedules and determining their fields. He advised them not to overload themselves, as under the new system for English A, only four courses are required in the first year...