Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...displayed, printed in 1595. By its title it claims to instruct in how to "choose, ride, train, and diet both hunting and running horses." A book on hunting and riding. "The Sportsman at Home and Abroad," has on its titlepage an original handcolored drawing by Henry Alken, famous English illustrator of horses and hunting scenes...
Long-suffering Freshmen have been nursed through English A as far as the memory of living man extends. The course has undergone many metamorphoses, some successful, some ghastly failures. The most recent reorganization was undertaken by Professor Hillyer. He cut out much dead wood, introduced many new, relatively young men, craftsmen in their own right, as section-men, and emphasized the conference plan...
...developed in conjunction with the second semester's work. While small conference groups should be retained as the fundamental organization, it would be an excellent idea to have weekly lectures given by specialists in certain fields, such as the drama, the novel, the poem, or the essay. Certainly the English Department has such specialists. These men, of necessity, would emphasize the form of each type of literature, but precisely what the student needs is an insight into the mechanics of writing and the organization of ideas...
Unquestionably these measures have borne fruit. Whether it is advisable to stop there, however, is an entirely different question. Recent changes in English A bring this problem into full focus. This fall an additional "escape" was offered to "upper seventh" Freshmen who did not pass their college boards with seventy-five or over. If this year's results are a reliable indication, this escape was little more than a knothole, for few passed. Further, the change itself may be considered as a confession of weakness; if the course could stand on its own feet there would be less anxicty...
Then, too, Professor Hillyer's decision to give up the monthly lectures must be interpreted in a similar light. Indeed, the monthly lectures were the single thin thread of organization in the whole course, and many students thought the addresses, though necessarily sketchy the best part of English A. Now all that remains is a glorified prep school course, whose bloom is not always apparent...