Word: phelpses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Lyon Phelps, in a recent magazine article, looks back fifty years to his won college career, and then deplores the passing of the good old days. Though ready enough to admit the great advances in education since then, and even the superiority in most respects of the modern college...
* Dr. Phelps, 68, will retire next June after 42 years of teaching English, but will continue as a fellow in Yale's Branford College.
"Every item was perfect! . . . . Everything was delightful!" cried exuberant Professor William Lyon Phelps one night last week as he left Yale's Sprague Memorial Hall.* He had been listening to an "Old Timers' Concert" of the Yale Glee Club, reviving popular college songs of the century past. The...
Rear Admiral William Woodward Phelps, his gold braid dulled, stood at attention. So did plump Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, and Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President's mother, and Ernest Lee Jahncke of New Orleans. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt's predecessor. High above them rose the...
Dr. William Lyon Phelps concludes the issue with an interesting review of "Ann Vickers." Space precludes much comment; one quoted sentence will suffice: ". . . as Sinclair Lewis is so constituted that he must attack what seem to him oppressors or hypocrites or respectable solemnities, this is a book with a purpose...