Word: herrick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baval Science 4 Memorial Hall SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 (VIII) Chemistry 10 Mallinckrodt MB8 Chinese 3 Emerson A German A Mr. Barnason, Sec. 4, 9 Memorial Hall Mr. Bennett, Sec. 16, 19 Memorial Hall Mr. Buffington, Sec. 7, 18 Memorial Hall Mr. Henry, Sec. 2, 6, 15 Memorial Hall Dr. Herrick, Sec. 1, 14 Memorial Hall Mr. Holske, Sec. 5 Memorial Hall Dr. Howe, Sec. 8, 12 New Lect. Hall Mr. Metcalf, Sec. 3 New Lect. Hall Mr. Shelley, Sec. 13, 20 New Lect. Hall Mr. Stamm, Sec. 10, 11 New Lect. Hall Dr. Zipf, Sec. 17 New Lect. Hall German...
This advice 17th Century Poet Richard Herrick gave "To the Virgins." Novelist Robert Herrick, born more than two centuries later, does not favor the same type of literary composition. A New Englander who began novelizing while he was a professor at the University of Chicago, he made his reputation with Together (a best seller in 1908) which touched not lightly upon adultery. Yet last week he, too, addressed himself to the Virgins, not in writing but in an airplane...
...Sexagenarian Herrick lay sunning himself at Winter Park, Fla., he received an appointment from Secretary of the Interior Ickes as Government Secretary to the Virgin Islands, right hand Administrative job in the regime of Sexagenarian Governor Paul Pearson. Novelist Herrick packed his bag, boarded an amphibian and three days later took the oath of office in the Administration Building in St. Thomas...
Painfully haltingly, but with slowly increasing assurance, Vardis Fisher is giving the lie to one of his old instructors, Professor-Novelist Robert Herrick. who once told him he would never "write a novel worth opening." Last week readers who had long since shut Herrick's old-fashioned novels were opening Vardis Fisher's latest book with mingled anticipation and dread. After reading the first two volumes of his U. S. tetralogy (In Tragic Life, Passions Spin the Plot), they knew they could expect a vicariously agonizing experience, reported with such rare and serious candor that it would give...
Last week Editor Blossom pronounced the experiment a success. In the first month the black seal of an accepted story was broken to admit Borden Chase, a hydraulic engineer. Soon others were unmasked: a Chicago newshawk using the name Kimball Herrick; a Montana professor named Brassil Fitzgerald; Allen Vaughan Elston, previously unknown outside of the pulp magazines. And more than one professional with a front cover name received a rejection slip, unaware that his story had been judged and discarded solely on merit...