Word: wyck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became an LL.D. of Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.), an L.H.D. of University of Syracuse and of St. Lawrence University (Canton, N. Y.). Columnist Thompson was the commencement speaker at all three colleges. Abreast with her for first place on the 1937 kudos list was solemn Critic Van Wyck Brooks, whose Pulitzer Prizewinner, The Flowering of New England, brought him Litt.D.'s from Bowdoin, Columbia and Tufts. Vassar's Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay got a Litt.D. from Colby, an L.H.D. from New York University. Two LL.D.'s apiece went to Cordell Hull (University of Pennsylvania...
...delegates had listened to some 24 hours of speechmaking, essay-reading and discussion in its various departments, had chosen John Dos Passos' The Big Money, Joseph Freeman's An American Testament, Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes, John Howard Lawson's Marching Song and Van Wyck Brooks' The Flowering of New England as the most valuable works of the past year. To Gone With The Wind (1,350,000 copies printed) they gave one vote...
History. Van Wyck Brooks (The Ordeal Of Mark Twain), was $1,000 richer because the judges agreed that his scholarly, readable The Flowering of New England (TIME, Aug. 24) was the historical-work-of-the-year...
...Biographer Shepard's well-presented thesis that Bronson Alcott is one of America's almost-forgotten great men. An ably-written, authoritative book, Pedlar's Progress deserves every penny of its $5,000 prize (Little, Brown Centenary), will fit snugly on the same shelf with Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England (TIME...
...FLOWERING OF NEW ENGLAND- Van Wyck Brooks-Button...