Word: leacockism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pupils spoke no English, Ontario finally recalled "Regulation 17." At Toronto. Last week the University of Toronto, province of Ontario, celebrated its centenary. Twenty-seven persons received honorary degrees, among them: Charles Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S.; George Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario; Stephen Leacock, economist & humorist; Frederick Paul Keppel, President of the Carnegie Foundation; John Huston Finley, editor of of New York Times; Dr. Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University; Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College; Henry M. Tory, President of the University of Alberta; Richard W. Livingston, President & Vice Chancellor of Queens University, Belfast...
...Quality of the Educational Process in the United States and in Europe" in the Foundation's current bulletin. Dr. Learned contrasts the disciplined convergence upon a single field, in European scholarship, with the dissipation of energy and attention permitted in U. S. classrooms, where Humorist Stephen Leacock pretended to find a student "taking Turkish, music and architecture not because he meant to be choirmaster in a Turkish cathedral but because they came...
...American Society for the Control of Cancer (TIME, Feb. 14 et ante). Others have given put of the ache of personal tragedies. The wife of Lucius N. Littauer, "Gloversville, N. Y., glove maker, died of pneumonia; he gave $5,000 for pneumonia research (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926). Professor Stephen Leacock's wife died of cancer; he vowed to give over his small wealth and his great talents to finding ways of preventing this disease (TIME...
This new book, on sale at the Co-operative Society, fills 2000 pages with selections from English literature ranging from Sir Patrick Spens to Ring Lardner and Stephen Leacock...
WINNOWED WISDOM - Stephen Leacock-Dodd, Mead ($2). A comprehensive Leaconcoction...