Word: fruitfull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Agitation Fruitful to a Degree
The announcement by the Trustees of the Dowse Institute of a course of five lectures, by Professor Kittredge at Sanders Theatre on "Five Tragedies of Shakspere", recalls attention to the interesting and fruitful endowment which these lectures represent. Thomas Dowse was a wool-puller and leather-dresser in Cambridge port...
I beg to be excused on the style of these few lines. Being a Frenchman I could not resist expressing my extreme patriotic dissapointment in seeing the abominable play chosen to represent our literature so fruitful in very good works, before one of the greatest universities of the world.
During the period in which it has been my privilege to see a good deal of Harvard and to talk with Harvard men of all sorts and points of view, I have heard much talk of various kinds about "English A". I have been curious to understand the great diversity...
The departmenting of studies has had no more unfortunate effect than the too common setting apart of courses in reading and in composition as if they had nothing whatever to do with the rest of schooling. In fact, an insistence upon good usage and clear and correct expression can be...