Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fundamental theory that memory or imagination or the reason or the will can be trained as a power." What Dr. Prosser would substitute is "specific education" for the secondary schools, and under this vocationalism he would add to the curriculum such subjects as practice in the use of English as "a tool of communication," business English, current events in economics, wholesome recreation in the community, social amenities and manners and the use of leisure time...
When Miss Lillie was asked to compare English with American sense of humor, she said of the English, "What sense of humor? But they really aren't an had as all that; they've just been brought up wrong. I was in a revue over there this summer, a hodge podge of everything I've done here for the past five years, but the audience just couldn't see eye to eye with an American one is picking their laughs...
Under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund Louis MacNeice, well known English poet, gave a reading of his poems yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. MacNeice holds a position on the University of London faculty...
...Pollard (Economics), Dr. Renn (Biology), Mr. Gordan (English...
Louis MacNeice, noted young English poet, will give a reading under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. A. contemporary of several of the younger English writers including W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, MacNeice graduated from Oxford and is now teaching at Bedford College in the University of London...