Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reprints copiously from Billy Phelps's books and "As I Like It" column in Scribner's, contains random commentaries on everything from Browning to blowing smoke rings. Its main bulk is given over to his many letters from famed writers, to his reminiscences of 41 years as English professor at Yale. (He estimates that he has taught almost 17,000 students, the majority of whom "have had for the rest of their lives a strong affection...
Teachers must strengthen "their connection with organized labor as the greatest force opposed . . . to any destruction of that intellectual freedom out of which our educational system has grown," Ernest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English, told 400 Massachusetts educators Saturday...
...with Dublin in her heart and the London stage on her mind. The bright candle lights of success beckoned in the 18th century as strongly as today. Her name was not Lamarr but plan Woffington--just "Peg of Old Drury." Wrapped up in a brand new package of old English drama, Anna Neagle scales the heights of theatrical adoration and wins that greatest prize of all--a corner in the heart of immortal David Garrick. It is the old story of home town girl makes good. But it is fresh and appealing, steeped in the lore of England...
...have at long last lingered on the historic precincts of Oxford and Cambridge. The revolutionary plan which they consequently sketched and which appears in the current athletic report is nothing more nor less than an approximation to the system of athletic relationships which exist in the twin sultans of English learning...
This is all very similar to the English system, where intra-mural athletics exist to the exclusion of everything but the final game with the rival blue. And even this is incorporated into Harvard's brawny heaven. For the season's culmination is to be a meeting with the champion gentlemen from New Haven. There is to be a little Yale-Harvard axis around which the minor sports world revolves, with all other colleges somewhere off in another universe...