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... collections and some seventy-odd books and articles used by Miss Anthony. The index is principally of proper names. Joseph C. Robert. The Hickory Limb. By Henry Noble MacCracken. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1950. Pp. 212. $2.75. In 1915 Vassar College celebrated its fiftieth anniversary and acquired...

...Douglas L. Rights Cry of the Thunderbird . Edited by Hamilton Charles . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1950 . Pp. 283 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 453 told. For the fifty years which preceded him students went to Vassar and hung...

... 380 Notes on Contributors low at Vassar College. The Wolfand the Hare: Epic Expansion and Contextualization in Derek Walcott s Omeros appeared in the InternationalJournal of the Classical Tradition (1996), and Polis and Oikoumene in Menander is forthcoming in The City as Comedy: Fictions ofthe...

... include The Novels of William Faulkner (1959) and (with F. J. Hoffman) Three Decades of Faulkner Criticism. Bernard A. Weisberger has taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Rochester, and Vassar College. Among his publications are Reporters for the Union (1953), Booker T. Washington (1972...

... Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Notes on Contributors Joel Auerbach is a doctoral student in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He has an MA from McGill University and a BA from Vassar College. Nandita Badami is a doctoral candidate in anthropology...

... Noble MacCracken. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1950. Pp. 212. $2.75. In 1915 Vassar College celebrated its fiftieth anniversary and acquired a new president. At the vesper service in the chapel when the announce­ ment of the appointment was made the students sang, Hark, the herald angels sing...

... and Economics was said to be under the arm of every Vassar girl. Our college girls today could do worse than to read Mrs. Friedan with similar intent. Her book will give added momentum to the full-scale re-examination of woman s role, of which symptoms are currently cropping up on every side, from history...

... of the century Mrs. Gilman s Women and Economics was said to be under the arm of every Vassar girl. Our college girls today could do worse than to read Mrs. Friedan with similar intent. Her book will give added momentum to the full-scale re-examination of woman s role, of which symptoms are currently cropping up...

... American Literature? (2021). Eve Dunbar is professor of English at Vassar College (NY). She is the author of Black Regions of the Imagination: African American Writers Between the Nation and the World (2012). Her work has been published in academic journals such as American Literature, African American...

... of the Scottish poet W. S. Graham. is professor of English at Vassar College, where she also directs the program in Africana Studies, and honorary uni- versity fellow at the University of Exeter in England. She is the author of Tseng...

... but indispensable edited volume of Bishop’s uncollected poems, drafts, and fragments—is “Aubade and Elegy,” an unfinished page of typescript from Bishop’s Vassar College archive.18 Composed a half decade prior to “One Art,” it mourns the 1967 suicide of Incoming: Globalization...

..., Contract and Contagion: Oikonomia, Intimate Self- Management, and the Limits to Speculation, elaborates the theoretical approach outlined in this essay and is presently under review. Seungsook Moon is a professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Vassar College and the Korea book review editor...

... in the country were founded in the South. The bricks of Salem College in North Carolina had somewhat mellowed before Mary Lyon began her epochal experiment in New England, and four other Southern colleges had graduated females before Matthew Vassar testified to his faith in the brains of Northern women. Before...

...) and Making the World Global: US Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary (2019). Sam Okoth Opondo is associate professor in political science and Africana studies at Vassar College. His work engages the postcolonial “mediation of estrangement” and the often overlooked amateur...

... for Working Women, Vassar s Summer School of Euthenics, the Williamstown Institute of Politics, the Johns Hopkins School for the Study of Comparative Law, the rap­ idly growing extension courses of universities everywhere, the study groups formed by women s clubs even the luncheon clubs of the business men...

..., Vassar, and Vir­ ginia have refused to use this prerogative. The selections are usually not announced until a few weeks be­ fore commencement. At the ceremony a diploma is awarded that states, often in Latin, that the person who received the degree ob­ tained it honoris causa, or in the cause of honor...

... Renaissance in England will be welcomed by students of Elizabethan literature. The book is one of a collection of studies published by alumnae of Vassar College in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the institution, but it is in no sense a production got up rapidly for the occasion. Instead, it represents...

..., is discussed by Professor Hansen. Harold H. Hutcheson. GENTLER VIRTUES The Quality of Mercy. By Grace H. Macurdy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940. Pp. 185. $2.00. This volume is one of the publications issued in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Vassar College and in honor of President...

..., wife of the professor of music at Vassar College, and a musi­ cian herself, who was deeply moved by his writings. Professor Ritter composed a recitative accompaniment for Dirge for Two Veterans, which was published in 1880. It was the first Whitman poem set to music. In a letter, reprinted in Bucke s...

... of the popular vote; only a split in the Democratic party allowed Lincoln to win the necessary majority in the Electoral College. With the removal of the heavily Democratic South through seces- Mr. Degler is professor of history at Vassar College. His publications include Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped...