Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affirmative was upheld by W. Tucker Dean '37 and Hubert H. Nexon '37 while the negative was taken by J. Ernest Richardson of Dalhousie University and William B. Morrisey of New Brunswick University...
GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA-Ernest Hemingway-Scribner...
Eleven years have passed since Ernest Hemingway published In Our Time, a collection of remarkable short stories. Since then he has written two novels, a parody of Sherwood Anderson, a book on bullfighting, two more volumes of short stones. In all these he revealed his distaste for literary affectations, his admiration for simple human courage and physical accomplishment, his preference for warm countries, his distrust of people who use big words and indulge in easy generalities. But he has never formulated a statement of the philosophy that has guided him in his writing. Consequently, Green Hills of Africa, which contains...
...must be put down as a successful experiment. With its swift narrative and its human conflicts it is as carefully organized as a good novel. The clearly visualized African landscapes' lovely in their panoramas, dense and difficult in detail, the remarkable variety of the hunting episodes, above all Ernest Hemingway's passionate absorption in the sport, combine to give the book the freshness and immediacy of a vivid personal experience. Moreover, the "idiotic abundance" of game, suddenly encountered after trying periods of inactivity, inspires
Sponsored by the National Federation of Canadian Universities, J. Ernest Richardson, of Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and William B. Morrisey, of the New Brunswick University, Fredericton, N. B., have been making a debating four of New England under the name of the Maritime Team...