Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head laughed, apparently somewhat puzzled by his strange behavior, and inquired if he was fragile. He semed upset by this, hesitated, and then burst out, "Yes, you see, I'm made of glass...
Fulbright Scholarships for study abroad next year have been awarded to John S. Mautner '58, of Adams House and Elmsford, N.Y., Robert S. November '58, of Kirkland House and Great Neck, N.Y., William M. Johnston '58, of Eliot House and Jamaica Plain, Mass., and John R. Kramer '58, of Lowell House and Hudson...
...graduate courses, Professor Kittredge was less overbearing. He held at least one seminar a year in his home, where he was completely at ease. His teaching technique in these seminars was such that it caused one graduate student to remark, "I'm studying Beowulf with Beowulf himself...
...host of merciless, polished questions, at Kittredge's taking over the exam with his mild kindliness and amazing ability to elicit information from exhausted minds that objected to thinking further." Once a frightened candidate for Honors in English said in reply to one of his questions, "I'm afraid I can't answer; I have not read all of Wordsworth." Kitteredge reassuringly disclosed, "Neither have I. I couldn't be hired to." He always helped the candidate to relax, and, according to one professor, was extremely sympathetic in the voting...
...knew the interview was concluded and prepared to leave. "You know," he said as I collected my notes, "I'm writing a book; it'll be the story of my life. I'm writing it for Thomas Nelson and Sons." He chuckled to himself. "They're the publishers of the Revised Edition of the Bible." His gaze fixed on the emptiness outside his hotel window. Then he turned toward me. "I guess it's sort of fitting that we 'revisionists' should come together...