Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LONDON--The Admiralty announced tonight that a "wild" mine had sunk the British destroyer Gipsy, seventh British naval vessel lost since the start of the war, within sight of the English east coast...
...mentioned as possibilities for the mastership, Richard M. Gummere '07, Director of Admissions, leads the list. Also discussed have been Dean Hanford, Mason Hammond '25, assistant professor of History and Greek and Latin, James B. Munn '12, Chairman of the English Department, Samuel H. Cross '12, professor of Slavic, Elliot Perkins '23, instructor in History and Literature, and Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation. The order of the names has no bearing on the possibilities of appointment...
...News from Heaven" and "Gavote and Muselk"; Beethoven's "Prometheus Overture"; Purcell's "Andante"; Dargomyzhski's "Chorus from Rogdana"; a French Carol, "Ding, Dong Merrily on High"; "The Birch in the Meadow," a Russian folk song; the American folk Song, "Come All ye Fain and Gentle Ladies"; and the English Carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas...
Forty years ago a young English doctor sailed his ketch along this same coast, and was so moved by the abject poverty of the inhabitants that he decided to devote his life to the betterment of their lot. Today hospitals and schools, missions and orphanages stand as tribute to the energy of one man, this doctor, whose name has become synonymous with Labrador. In the widest possible sense he has educated the people not to suffer on the barest edge of the land but to develop the resources--timber and minerals--which lie inland...
...This English doctor, now old and weary, still has the soul of a crusader. Not content with a job well done, he insists on pushing ahead with a fanatic zeal. Knowledge of this work has forced upon Vag an irrepressible desire to learn more about it. Partly for this reason, partly in tribute to a great leader, Vag is going to hear Sir Wilfred Grenfell speak this evening at eight o'clock in the large lecture room of the Fogg Museum...