Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to The Oxford English Dictionary, "calms" and "cames" have the same meaning. Since U. S. glassmakers prefer "cames," TIME herewith adopts...
...first lecture Tuesday, Chauncey B. Tinker, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has selected "Poetics Painting in England," in his series of eight on "Literary Tendencies in English Painting...
Sterling Professor of English Literature At Yale, Tinker succeeds Johnny A. E. Roosval, of the University of Stockholm, in the chair established in 1925 by Charles C. Stillman '38 in memory of Charles Eliot Norton 1846, professor of the History...
...solution to this situation would not involve a radical change. Simply by dividing English A-1 into two courses, one for those who intend to continue their writing, the other for those who wish to work on technique, the University could open the way for a more efficient development of both sides. In the Physics Department, for instance, one elementary course is devoted to those wishing to continue in the field and one to students merely wanting a general view of the subject...
Because of the large number now in English A-1 the University night find it necessary to provide more instructors, appointed on the basis of their capacity to reach technique or to foster creative writing. With a few additional instructors, more individual conferences, of the highest importance to the student, would be possible. Through such a division of English A-1 the needs of two hundred who hold different objectives but are thrown together almost at random could be corrected to a degree consistent with the significance of learning how to write...