Word: jonathans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Magister Ludi has an underlying theme as savage as some of Jonathan Swift, but it is written in an elegant, leisurely, almost wearily lyrical prose. The combination is arresting. The book, laid in some remote and undefined future, purports to be a study of the career of one Joseph Knecht. Hesse is not so simple as to imagine that biographers in the future will write like those of the present. Many dates, names and places will mean little then, and many historical events nothing. This biographer of the future in the present rambles and rapturizes, leaves out everything a contemporary...
Powers & Poland. Wellesley, in the first year of Margaret Clapp's reign, has a faculty of 130 single women, 28 married women and 53 men. Some are noted in their fields-Johnsonian Scholar Katharine Balderston for her Thraliana, Pulitzer Prizewinner Ola Elizabeth Winslow for her Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, Psychologist Edna Heidbreder for her Seven Psychologies. One professor, Mary Ellen Goodman (sociology), is a former Powers model; another, Waclaw Jedrzejewicz (Russian) was a prewar Polish minister of education...
This incident, according to Samuel Eliot Morison '07, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History who spoke last night on "The History of Harvard," happened during the first year of Harvard's 312 year existence, and not many years later "a fifteen hole" outhouse was constructed on the location of the present University Hall...
Samuel Eliot Morison '07, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, will expound. "The History of Harvard" at 8 p.m. tonight in Emerson D as the first in a series of Student Council sponsored meetings...
Last week Cardus fans all over Britain could admire his virtuosity in both specialties. A new anthology, The Essential Neville Cardus (Jonathan Cape; 12 s. 6 d.), was selling at the impressive rate of 1,000 copies a week...