Word: tanksley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vanderbilt University, they well recall young Instructor Johnson. He has turned novelist since he left the English Faculty, but still lives in Nashville, Tenn. Reading his gentle arraignment of professorial hypocrisy, they will scowl, or be enthusiastic, self-consciously. The decline and fall of the soul of Dr. J. Tanksley Parkhurst, who took his Chaucer and his reputation seriously enough to become Dean, is staged at Thurston College, New England; but the winters are mild, the "you-alls" plentiful. Vanderbilt will take it personally. At other colleges, if the book is read, more detached criticism will find it a story...
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