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...range of 17th Century American literature is not wide, and its forms are not overly refined. The early colonists were too busy building a civilization to write much about it. Yet its dirt-simple honesty and plow-ahead directness set the main style for later American writing, just as the rugged life it describes was the hardy set of roots which nourished the beginnings of American history...
...minister to France, he spent a day in an Italian dairy learning how to make Parmesan cheese. His design of a more efficient moldboard for a plow won a gold medal from a French agricultural society. His library at Charlottesville, Va., which was the finest private library in the U.S., was bought by the Government to restock the gutted Library of Congress, burned by the British...
...duke rather than king. There, in hard-pressed moments, islanders still look for aid to William's great ancestor Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. Rollo, it is said, was so just and severe a prince that during his early loth Century reign a farmer could leave a plow in an open field with no fear of theft...
...real prerequisites for majoring in English which the Department doesn't mention. 1. It's always nice for the purposes of the field if you like to read, because you're going to spend three years doing it. 2. If you can't correlate material, and just plow through the printed pages without keeping the development and ideas of English literature in mind, you'll leave Harvard just as uninformed as you were when you came...
...bettors choice was Freebooter, a coffee-colored gelding and half-brother of an Irish plow horse. But the sentimental favorite of thousands of British housewives was Princess Elizabeth's Monaveen. Last week, in Aintree's bright spring sunshine, Britain's royal family peered down from the roof of the clubhouse as anxiously as any two-shilling bettor as the 49 starters crowded to the post...