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...called Group of Ten to hasten their efforts toward an agreement on a new international currency to supplement dollars, pounds and gold in world trade, as the U.S. has been urging. The problem, of course, is old, and even in the relatively uncomplicated days of 1720, English Satirist Jonathan Swift recognized it in a memorable quatrain...
Sold Out. Nevertheless, the siege began with a British victory. One English officer and 57 men held an outpost for nine hours against the attacks of 5,000 Indians. The Nawab prepared to order a general retreat, but he did not have to: Drake retreated first. In a panic he abandoned a key position-and then hid in a cellar, where he fell asleep on a storage bin. After he woke up, Drake took his first and last decisive action. He strode to the riverbank, jumped into a rowboat, and was last seen shinnying shamelessly aboard a merchantman moored near...
Students in Hum 4 will stage several one-act productions at the Loeb Experimental Theatre this Spring, Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English, said yesterday. Students enrolled in the course will direct the plays and do all the acting and technical work...
Robert T.S. Lowell Jr. '39, visiting professor of English, has been nominated for Oxford University's Chair of Poetry...
...chair, originally established for Matthew Arnold, is considered one of the greatest honors that can be given an English-speaking poet. It carries a five-year term...