Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boswell make Johnson?" In an editorial under this heading the New York Times tells of a debate upon this question recently held at the London School of Economics. As might be supposed, the consequences of the debate were not momentous. Johnson has not been deposed and his biographer invested with his crown and sceptre...
...ironies of history that Johnson, who never hesitated to venture the last word upon his literary predecessors and contemporaries, has had to submit to many attempts to weigh, catalogue, and pigeon-hole him by successors, many of whom have been eminently less qualified than he was to apply the formulae of judgment. One of the London debaters, for example, contended that since nobody nowadays reads Johnson's original works, and everybody who makes claim to learning reads Boswell, it follows that Boswell made Johnson...
...Arts 1a Fogg Lect. Rm. Fine Arts 2b Fogg Sm. Rm. French 1 Prof. Hawkins, 1 Sever 23 French 1 Mr. Kelsey's Sect. 2 Atwell-Kennedy Sever 23 MacCollom-Whiting Sever 24 Mr. Penny, 3 Sever 24 German 8 Emerson F German 25b Allen-Davenport Sever 13 Dean-Johnson Sever 14 Jones to Rianhard Sever 17 Richards-Zimmerman Sever 18 Government 4 Emerson A Greek B, II Sever 30 History 7 Emerson J History 14 Emerson D History 56 Sem. Mus. 1 Italian 10 Sem. Mus. 1 Mathematics A, VI Sever 32 Mathematics C, IV Sever 35 Mathematics...
...Although Johnson, who also won the Yale Interscholastic title two weeks ago, emerges the individual victor, his school team ties for second place with Exeter, while Loomis School annexes the shield for the winning team with a total of 16 points. This is the second year in succession that Loomis has won the tournament...
...Whitbeck of Loomis, who won the individual title last year, but whose chances of repeating were discounted by an injury to his shoulder, managed to reach the semi-final round in which he fell before Johnson...