Word: quinquennium
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According to silver-tongued Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, his University Hall officemate Harry R. Lewis '68 is now nearly one year into his second "quinquennium" as dean of the College...
...that bygone day? He might well choose such a lean and lustful tale as John O'Hara's Butterfield 8. He might mention in passing such names as John Dos Passes, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner. But these would all be sideshows. Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse. By 1935 critics who had tried to blink it off as simply a big flash in a shallow pan were opening their eyes wider, slowly admitting that for the umpteenth time Romance was again rearing its tousled head. With such...
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