Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coming session Professor Mather has gathered a brilliant array of teaching talent from all parts of the country, especially in the fields of English, Government and Fine Arts. The concentrator in English can study modern American literature under Professor Hornberger, former editor of the Sewannee Review. This fills a gap in the English Department's program, which is notoriously scornful of American literature produced since 1920. In Government, courses in contemporary diplomatic problems, dealing with the latest crises will be given. The Fine Arts Department is offering an extended tour of the European art centers under the supervision...
Next month Lowell House is planning to present an opera which merits considerable attention. Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" is without doubt the greatest of English operas and may safely be ranked among the outstanding musical dramas of all time...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, was honorary judge, and Vernon H. Struck, Senior class second marshal, presided over the program. Judges for the competition were John H. Finley, Jr. '25, assistant professor of Greek and Latin, Gustavus H. Maynadier '89, assistant professor of English, emeritus, Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, emeritus, Joseph R. Hamlen '04, and the Hon. Eliot Wadsworth...
Although the competition rules specify that orations may be in Latin, or Greek, Gordon M. Messing '38, who delivered excerpts from "De Rerum Natura," by Lucretius, was the only contestant who did not choose a selection in English...
...Worcester (English), Dr. Gilmore (History) Monday 1:30-3 o'clock; Mr. Gordon (English), Dr. Miller (Economics) Tuesday 7:30-8:30 o'clock; Dr. Miller (Rom. Lang), Dr. Perkins (Hist. & Lit.) Wednesday 7.30-8.30 o'clock. Mr. Birkhoff (Mathematics) Professor Elliott (Gov.) Thursday 1.30-3 o'clock. Professor Munn (English), Mr. Chase (History), Friday 1.30-3 o'clock...