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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Island announced today that John Lewis, a graduate student in English, was awarded the $25 first prize for the best poem submitted in their contest. His poem, will appear in the May issue of the new literary magazine. Judges were William Alfred. Albert J. Gelpi. at John L. Sweeney...
...English translation of the book is probably neither as precise nor as eloquent as the original French. In my borrowed hardback copy, for instance, Mr. Lacouture had to write in several corrections. But the few errors are trivial; and the concise historical narrative, perceptive analysis, and original imagery more than compensate for the difficulties of the translation...
...proper criterion for admittance to the honors program in history--and in other departments--is the ability and willingness to do honors work in that field, not grades which may reflect performance in entirely different fields. Here the History Department is contemplating a step backward, while other departments (English, for example) have been advancing to less narrow grade requirements...
...Giovanni Forum will be held tonight at 8 p.m. in the Leverett House Old Library. Participants will be James E. Haar, assistant professor of Music, Daniel Seltzer, associate professor of English and Mr. Jean Bruaneau, of Lyon University...
...epitaph; for more than a century her quaint gothic masterpiece has been buried among bookworms. Yet for half a century before that, from 1794 until the triumph of Dickens and Thackeray, The Mysteries of Udolpho was an international bestseller, acclaimed by Coleridge as "the most interesting novel in the English language." It enchanted Keats, who under its influence wrote The Eve of St. Agnes; it electrified Byron, who stole its hero and called him Childe Harold; it directly inspired Sir Walter Scott to produce his greatest works, the Waverly novels. And even today Udolpho commands deference as the first successful...