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...degree in English were synonymous with an ability to comprehend the English language as a philologist then there would be ample justification in requiring from the most brilliant candidates a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon. An A. B. Degree in English, however, concerns itself primarily with the literature of the country and not in its etymological sources. Those desiring to become proficient in the latter should be allowed to do so; those who do not should be allowed the freedom of choice...
Peter Giles: Eminent philologist; honored Master of Emmanuel College, the oak that grew from Mildmay's acorn, whence Harvard sprang, and in turn a forest of colleges in our land...
...Mongolia (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923); Dr. William Lyon Phelps of Yale, optimistic critic of literature; Dr. Irving Fisher of Yale, economist-Prohibitionist; Dr. Max L. Margolis of Dropsie College, philologist and Jewish historian...
...whole dramatic library has flowed from the devious but prodigiously brilliant pen of Professor Luigi Pirandello. His academic intimates know him as an erudite philosopher philologist. But to the world he is the playwright of Six Characters in Search of an Author. Last week he contrived in actuality at his Roman villa a drama as "Pirandellic" as any of his numerous plays-famed for his knack of creating characters (like his Henry IV) who are not what they seem. Early in the week Signor Pirandello had received a visit from two friends with a mutual grievance: Playwright Massimo Bontempelli...
PETER PANTHEISM-Robert Haven Schauffler-Macmillan ($2). Mr. Schauffler is an unregenerate word-and-phrase addict, or more politely, a poetic philologist. Give him a simple declarative idea and he will repeat it to you in a dozen new guises, tricked out in quotations, skipping in humor, prone in absurdity or radiant with glamour. It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists. Among the ideas herein prestidigitated are "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Cupid in Knickerbockers" (on calf love), "Timesquarese" (on alphabetical survival of the fittest...