Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Noon" by Kenneth B. Murdock, professor of English and Master of Leverett House, is cited in the article as an example of the teaching of past events and obscure personages, while "The New Deal in Action, 1932-1938," by Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, is mentioned as dealing with "the sunshine and shadow of today" rather than with the remote "sun-at-noon stuff...
...eminent poet and critic, who has not been in this country since 1911, arrived recently and is staying in Cambridge for a few days with Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English...
...Program catch the Freshmen as they enter the Yard, fresh and eager to try their intellectual wings. Let the farcical Bliss Prizes be abolished and the money be given for the best Freshman essays on some phase of American civilization. This year's successful tie-up with English A can be extended to other Freshman courses, and will undoubtedly draw a large group of Yardlings...
...attention. A year later he published North of Boston, a "book of people" so full of New England scenery and New England tones of voice that even foreigners could get the lay of the landscape and the hang of its inhabitants. His U. S. reputation thus established by his English success, when Frost returned to the U. S. in 1915 he found himself regarded as a famed American poet. In the next 22 years he received honorary degrees from 13 colleges, was thrice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry...
...Harvard he will have a roving commission without formal allegiance to any one faculty. He will probably be concerned with both the Department of English and the School of Education, giving no formal courses, but making himself available to students for informal instruction. He will be an associate of Eliot House...