Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempted here. English literature stands first in the number of works acquired, partly because it has perhaps the widest appeal, but chiefly because certain large subscriptions, amounting to $7,500, were specifically given for the purchase of English prose fiction. As a result of this, the collection of English novels of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is rapidly growing, and the students in Professor Greenough's courses in the history of the novel have adequate material to work with. Another considerable sum was devoted to building up the works of Fielding; and further sums were spent on editions...
...invasion of the East by a western debating team presents a novel thing. Usually an eastern college sends a team on a circle, taking in the principal western schools. However, the Oklahoma team was so successful on its California trip last year, winning eight out of ten debates, that it determined to attempt an extensive invasion of the East. Harvard is the ninth opponent for the Westerners...
...appearance of a book of poetry is even less likely to produce any stir of interest than the new novel or biography. This insensitiveness on the part of the reading public to contemporary verse is probably due to the innumerable slim, exotic volumes put forth by poetasters and minor aesthetes which offer slight satisfaction for all their fine exteriors and extravagant claims. Even if bad poetry does usually fall more miserably than bad prose, those works which actually reach the heights of true poetry and sustain themselves there are all the more worthy of admiration and attention...
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...Dynasts. But this anthology of War stories is a step in that direction. These 66 short stories, by French, German, British, U. S. authors, whether or not they are the best stories of the War, at least give a more representative picture than can be found in any one novel, poenij history...