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...given degree credits. Dr. MacCracken, English scholar and professor, pointed out that many early English plays were written and performed in English schools. Said he: "We are but following the English custom in this, for it was an Eton headmaster, Nicholas Udal, who wrote the first English comedy extant, Roister Doister, four centuries...
...Scholars have acclaimed the literature of this handful of people living on an artic island as the greatest medieval literature extant before the appearance of Dante's writings," he said. He pointed out further that the Icelandic sagas are the last surviving purely Teutonic literature completely untouched by classic tradition or influence and that as such they are completely original products...
Against each assertion by Mr. Gardiner the committee set an answer drawn from Government records. The total of these answers made up the best argument extant for the Hoover Naval policy. The gist of important comparisons...
When a reputable man of letters such as John Drinkwater writes a flattering biography of such a tycoon as Carl Laemmle (TIME, May 4), angels weep, men laugh knowingly. When famed and popular Author André Maurois writes a no less flattering account of his still-extant compatriot, Marshal of France Hubert Lyautey, angels may control themselves but men will exchange speculative glances. There is no comparison between the two books, as jobs, nor between the two men who form their subjects. But after reading Lyautey and remembering Ariel, you cannot help feeling that this horn-toot by Andr...
...criticism, that "the fragment was the literary genre which was natural to Coleridge, and only in the fragments of marginalia was he entirely himself," he anticipates the present reviewer's reaction to the work in hand. In the first of these two carefully edited volumes appear all of those extant fragments while in the second are contained the reports of the poet's numerous lectures on the subject...