Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There it sat, an $18 million imitation English village, spang in the midst of the Connecticut countryside. An eccentric old woman had built Avon Old Farms as the spit & image of a Cotswold village, with carefully warped roofs, rippled window panes, synthetically worn stairs. She had meant it for a boys' school. There were no students at Avon last week. The only sign of schoolboy life was a boy named Butch, busy tacking up college pennants in a monklike cubicle in one of the dormitories, installing model airplanes, and littering up the joint after the fashion of twelve-year...
...Ideal Husband. Paulette Goddard and an elegant English cast in a lovely, languid production of Oscar Wilde's play (TIME...
Take My Life (Rank; Eagle-Lion). An opera singer's husband is accused of strangling a former mistress; his wife (sumptuous Greta Gynt) finds out whodunit. This English thriller in the Hitchcock tradition is no world-shaker, but it is done with intelligence and a flair for fright...
With a thousand-odd Freshmen to juggle into sections, the English Department cannot cater to every man's pet whim. Prior preparation of the Veteran's Book list further limits the possible materials and the section man, having already planned his course, cannot effectively arbitrate at the last minute. But neither can a student effectively work in a field foreign to his bent, to which he is arbitrarily assigned. His literary acquaintance may be broadened but not his interests; and with no participation in the selection, his education suffers...
Considering the wealth of possible reading, it would be unfair to an instructor's particular inclinations to make all sections identical, equally comprehensive in scope. Although this might placate the sufferings of a misplaced student, it would be only a pony duplication of English 1. Much more feasibly, the English Department should announce each section's Spring reading a few days before Ab registration. The student would be assured of a more valuable course, the instructor a more receptive class. If overloadings resulted, second or third choices could be satisfied. Three hundred men changed their sections last term...