Word: lillo
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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THERE are two types of the literary college professor: the stodgy ones who edit, say, the works of George Lillo with compendious notes, of whom all college students have seen far too many specimens, and the sprightly ones who pride themselves on keeping up with the latest vagaries of the inexplicably unscholastic. Stuart, Sherman was one of the best of the second type a man whom Illinois University students revered as if he had been a combination of Doctor Johnson, Barrett Wendell and William Lyon Phelps, and whose directing of the Herald-Tribune Book Review endeared him to that dreadfully...