Word: prideaux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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NEVER TO DIE-Josephine Mayer and Tom Prideaux-Viking...
Compiled by Teachers Josephine Mayer and Tom Prideaux of Manhattan's progressive Lincoln School, Never to Die owes its material to the labors of several generations of archeologists and translators, principally University of Chicago's late, great Professor James H. Breasted. Unique merit of the book is not in its outline of Egyptian history or its use of Egyptian art but in its presentation of the limpidly human chronicles, hymns, love poems, adages, medical prescriptions and fairy tales which make up the world's oldest written literature. A proverb: "If thou art a guest at the table...
...tons of fancy tomatoes each year on his farm at Princess Anne, Md., was not a bit flustered last week by the guinea pigs' criticisms of Lincoln School. He was pleased "that our friends do not hesitate to tell us about our worst faults." And Alumnus-Teacher Tom Prideaux explained: "Progressive teaching is popularly suspect. It is a convenient scapegoat. Further, many students in new schools like Lincoln are recruited from families with a talent for criticism. They have rebellion in their bones...
...Harvardite visited Hollis 15: John Barrymore, Christopher Morley, Alexander Woollcott, Henry Major Tomlinson. Henry Van Dyke, and the late Mrs. Fiske who received a famed note, "Minnie: Come to Copey's" and came forthwith. To young fellows "Copey" could be crushing. Two years ago saucy Tom Prideaux, editor of the Yale Literary Magazine, went up to look at Harvard. He visited "Copey," who stared at him and said: "Young man, I trust you are not planning to write any sketches." To an impertinent youth who suggested a headline to describe a fire : "Hollis a Holo caust, Copey a Crisp...