Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David F. Wheeler '47 of Cambridge, has won the Augustus Clifford Tower Fellowship for study in a French University. Wheeler was a member of the Eliot House football team and concentrated in the study of English literature...
...Dante prizes have also been announced. Raymond Joel Dorius 6G of Los Angeles won $50 for an essay entitled "The English Reader and Dante's 'Visibile Parlare,'" while Howard Hugh Schless '46 of Philadelphia was awarded a like amount for an essay of 'Melville and Dante: A Structural Comparison...
President Wilbur K. Jordan (above), Radcliffe's fourth chief of staff, holds a dual position as Annex head and Harvard professor of history, teaches an advanced history course dealing with the doings of the Tudors and their subjects in England and conducts a seminar in the Stuart period of English history, and sits on a number of Radcliffe and Harvard-Radcliffe committees in the bargain...
...begin with, the Harvard scribe faces the unpleasant task of writing about people whom he must face across the breakfast table the next day. This puts a premium on the ability to sugarcoat the English language to the point where a three-base error becomes merely a tough break. But even kindness of this sort is not enough to placate your athletes-critics, who constantly stantly try to corrupt your attempts to "Write 'em as you see 'em" by burdening you with their side of the story. This has even been carried to the point where a team-mate...
...readership, which makes every hurried cliche the subject of many cruel barbs. A Saturday sporting event is easy, because the publication schedule of this journal allows for a leisurely and calculated write-up, but the occasion of a night hockey game can strain any man's regard for the English language...