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Nebraska Place-Names, Lilian Linder Fitzpatrick A.M.

University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism

This study of Nebraska place-names is as exhaustive as I could make it. Nevertheless it is not wholly complete. There are a few town names in many counties concerning which I could obtain no accurate information. Hence they are not entered. There are other names concerning which my information is deficient despite my best efforts. Moreover Nebraska is a large state and new towns are constantly springing up, especially in the remoter counties. I would like to have the record for the state as complete as possible. Additional information and corrective or supplementary material, where these may be needed, will …

Xx. The Term "Communal", Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

I. The Doctrine of Communal Origins

The period following the French Revolution was deeply interested in "the people" as a mass conception, in all that belonged to them and all that they created. It was in this period that theorists on the origin of law, customs, religion, language, literature--particularly the folk-song and the folk-tale--liked to advocate the doctrine of spontaneous, unconscious growth "from the heart of the people," as the phrase went. Such conceptions of origin had their critics from the first; but they remained more or less orthodox throughout the nineteenth century, and they still have foothold in both …

Brook Farm And Margaret Fuller, Genevieve Teske

Bachelors’ Theses

Communism as an ideal for human society is a dream that many a philosopher has cherished and striven for. Some there were who theorized upon it, who sought to circumvent and direct the passions and activities of human nature by artificial barriers towards what was better and truer, though themselves holding aloof and leaving it to others to conduct the experiment; and some there were, who boldly led the way in person, setting an example to the followers they had gained; some again there were, who held the neutral role of spectators at a drama, observing the experiments made, observing …

The Limitations Of Impressionism In Literature, Thomas J. Campbell

Bachelors’ Theses

The farmer on plowing a field for the first time, almost invariably, marks out the course of the first furrow with stakes. That is, he must plant at least three stakes by which he may strike out straightly the first furrow upon which the condition of all the following furrows depend. Now we are not going to plow a new tract of land, because literary criticism has been hashed over again and again, but we do need a little of the farmer's prevision and precaution in entering such a large and diverse field as literary criticism embraces. We too, must …

The English Inn In English Literature, Eugene E. Ball

Bachelors’ Theses

Perhaps no institution holds higher rank in, or has had more influence on English literature than the English Inn. Famed alike in song and story, it has come down to us through the centuries as a sacred sanctuary of thought and culture, where the creators of the sagas of our native tongue sought congenial companionship, where the sharp flash of wit, and the quick thrust of repartee kindled inspiration into flame.

The Necessary Relation Of Morality To Literature And Its Apparent Neglect In Our Modern Works, Muriel Bruett

Bachelors’ Theses

Literature has a purpose beyond itself, the expression of truth, the transmission of knowledge from generat1on to generation, and the elevation and strengthening of the man. It is clear that the purpose of reading is to put ourselves into communication with the best minds of the race. Unless we read a man for all there is in him, we gain little but a disorganized group of pages. Books should be real things. For if we admit that there is an intrinsic value in anything, we must admit the objective value of literature, that there is something which stamps a book …

The Orion, Volume 7, Issue 5, The Orion Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The April 1923 edition of the Anderson College journal of literature, The Orion.

The names of the known editors for this issue of The Orion were Gladys Atkinson, Virginia Cowherd, Alice Pope Harris, Lula Lee Leathers, Bessie V. Jones, Lydia Burriss, Martha White, May Bell Barnhill, Bonte Phillips, Kathleen Foster, Marjorie England, Caroline Parnell, Bobbie Phillips, Malvina Hopper, and Babbie Sullivan

The Orion, Volume 7, Issue 3, The Orion Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The February 1923 edition of the Anderson College journal of literature, The Orion.

The names of the known editors for the Estherian Literary Society's issue of The Orion were Gladys Atkinson, Virginia Cowherd, Alice Pope Harris, Lula Lee Leathers, Bessie V. Jones, Lydia Burriss, Martha White, May Bell Barnhill, Bonte Phillips, Kathleen Foster, Marjorie England, Caroline Parnell, Bobbie Phillips, Malvina Hopper, and Babbie Sullivan.

The Orion, Volume 7, Issue 2, The Orion Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The Christmas 1922 edition of the Anderson College journal of literature, The Orion.

The names of the known editors for this issue of The Orion were Gladys Atkinson, Virginia Cowherd, Alice Pope Harris, Lula Lee Leathers, Bessie V. Jones, Lydia Burriss, Martha White, May Bell Barnhill, Bonte Phillips, Kathleen Foster, Marjorie England, Caroline Parnell, Bobbie Phillips, Malvina Hopper, and Babbie Sullivan.

The Philosophy Of Composition, Frederick Paul Arnold

Bachelors’ Theses

D.ring the slow and regular development of the human race from infancy to adolescence and from adolescence to old age, the one question confronting it is the "quiddity" of its environment. One of the most prominent of man's characteristics is to seek knowledge; to learn something new; to know what was hitherto unknown and through this knowledge to gain further enlightenment upon things about him. He has studied the planets and the elements; he has made note of the physical and chemical laws but has me:rely attempted to gain an adequate knowledge of himself.

The Essence Of The Drama, William M. Lamers

Bachelors’ Theses

No abstract provided.

The Orion, Volume 6, Issue 3, The Orion Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The March 1922 edition of the Anderson College journal of literature, The Orion.

The names of the known editors for this issue of The Orion were Irene Biggs, Caroline Parnell, Frances Mattox, Mozelle Jones, and Mary Clement.

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1922 -- All Star Number, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

The Orion, Volume 6, Issue 1, The Orion Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The November 1921 edition of the Anderson College journal of literature, The Orion.

The names of the known editors for this issue of The Orion were Susan Creech, Hazel Murphy, Zenith Freeman, Isabel Cunningham, Mary Dell Stewart, Lula Lee Leathers, and Gena Gwin.

The Orion, Volume 4, Issue 4, The Orion Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The March 1920 edition of the Anderson College journal of literature, The Orion.

The names of the known editors for the Estherian Literary Society's issue of The Orion were Ruth Brownlee, Clarice Townsend, Myra Anderson, Edith Hubbard, Bernice Shields, Lucy Primrose Whyte, and Carolyn Parnell.

Bergson's Theory Of The Comic In The Light Of English Comedy, Louise Mathewson

University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism

From Plato onward many of the world's greatest thinkers have attempted to tell the meaning of laughter. It is not surprising that the thing has proved alluring, for whereas a true theory of laughter might add little to our enjoyment of the comic; it would, nevertheless, help us to understand the nature of life and mind. But although laughter is perhaps the lightest of human possessions, it is the most difficult to capture for examination. Neither philosopher nor literary critic has given us a wholly satisfactory account of the comic. One difficulty is that so many things are true of …

Xvii. The Ballad And The Dance, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

It is the purpose of the following paper to examine the relationship of the mediceval ballad to the dance, in origin and in traditional usage. Particular reference is had to the English and Scottish ballad tvpe. In various preceding papers I have considered the theory currently accepted in America of the inseparableness of primitive dance, music, and song and have shown that primitive song is not narrative in character. I have also questioned the assumption that the ballad is the archetypal poetic form--this position should be assigned to the song, not the ballad--and the assumption of " communal " as …

Astronomical Lore In Chaucer, Florence M. Grimm

University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism

The conspicuousness of astronomical lore in the poetry of Chaucer is due to its importance in the life of his century. In the mediaeval period, astronomy (or 'astrology,' for the two names were used indifferently to cover the same subject) was one of the vital interests of men. The ordinary man of the Middle Ages knew much more than do most men to-day about the phenomena of the heavens; conveniences such as clocks, almanacs, and charts representing celestial phenomena were rare, and direct observations of the apparent movements and the relative positions of the heavenly bodies were necessary for the …

Songs Of The Cattle Trail And Cow Camp, John A. Lomax

University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism

The Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp does not purport to be an anthology of Western verse. As its title indicates, the contents of the book are limited to attempts, more or less poetic, in translating scenes connected with the life of a cowboy. The volume is in reality a by-product of my earlier collection, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads.

The Orion, Volume 1, Issue 5, The Orion Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The fifth edition of the Anderson College journal of literature, The Orion.

The names of the known editors for this issue of The Orion were Mary Riley, Gertrude Jones, Wilma Ervin, Mary Bowie, Lura King, Emily Sullivan, Sarah Sanders, Janet Bolt, Myrtle Workman, Julia Ledbetter, Marie Nelson, Blanche Dalrymple, Myra Anderson, Catherine Sullivan, J. T. Miller, and Carol L. Sullivan.

The Orion, Volume 1, Issue 2, The Orion Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The second edition of the Anderson College journal of literature, The Orion

The names of the known editors for this issue of The Orion were Mary Riley, Gertrude Jones, Wilma Ervin, Mary Bowie, Lura King, Emily Sullivan, Sarah Sanders, Janet Bolt, Myrtle Workman, Julia Ledbetter, Marie Nelson, Blanche Dalrymple, Myra Anderson, Catherine Sullivan, J. T. Miller, and Carol L. Sullivan.

The Orion, Volume 1, Issue 1, The Orion Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The first edition of the Anderson College journal of literature, The Orion. It would be the beginning framework of what would blossom into Ivy Leaves over the next century.

The names of the known editors for this issue of The Orion were Mary Riley, Gertrude Jones, Wilma Ervin, Mary Bowie, Lura King, Emily Sullivan, Sarah Sanders, Janet Bolt, Myrtle Workman, Julia Ledbetter, Marie Nelson, Blanche Dalrymple, Myra Anderson, Catherine Sullivan, J. T. Miller, and Carol L. Sullivan.

Offero, The Giant: A Christmas-Eve Story, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

This children's story tells the tale of Offero, the Giant, "the tallest and strongest man" in the world, who sets out to find the greatest ruler on Earth. While on his journey, he learns of Jesus Christ.

Cowboy Songs And Other Frontier Ballads, John A. Lomax

University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism

Out in the wild, far-away places of the big and still unpeopled west, in the cañons along the Rocky Mountains, among the mining camps of Nevada and Montana, and on the remote cattle ranches of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, yet survives the Anglo-Saxon ballad spirit that was active in secluded districts in England and Scotland even after the coming of Tennyson and Browning. This spirit is manifested both in the preservation of the English ballad and in the creation of local songs. Illiterate people, and people cut off from newspapers and books, isolated and lonely, thrown back on primal …

The Machine Stops, E. M. Forster

OER Main

The Machine Stops describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and are threatened with "Homelessness". With humans being highly dependable …

July 23, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets about her vacation trip from where she was staying in Tokyo to several different places around Japan. She writes of her stay in a Japanese style hotel. She also writes about the scenery around her, and about how long it takes her by rail to get to her travel destinations. She also writes of a traveling companion named George, and how she has invited Abbie to come and visit her and meet George.

How Little Cedric Became A Knight, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

This children's tale tells the story of Cedric, a little boy who wishes to become a knight by being kind, noble, and brave.

The Sport Of The Gods, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar Books

Perhaps a reflection of the turmoil Dunbar faced personally as his health continued to decline and his marriage ended, Dunbar's fourth and final novel, The Sport of the Gods, is considered a protest novel. Received far better by critics than any previous novel, the book tells the story of Berry Hamilton, a black butler charged with theft by his white employers. The story follows the family through the hardships they encounter as a result of this experience.

The Necessity Of Tradition In Literature, A. F. Jaeger

Bachelors’ Theses

"'Art is instinct working upon an unbroken chain of tradition. The difficulty of our period is to reawaken the perception of beauty in people who have no longer the natural eye of tradition to perceive it with. Yolk art is dead now, killed, with the tradition of it by Commerce. It was once alive. The proof of artistic tradition lies in its artistic. The kings, the statesmen, the soldiers of the ages disappear, but the art of ages remains." (From "People and Things"--:Masaingham) Literature, like any other art cannot cut itself off from tradition. The influence of the past critically …

Lyrics Of The Hearthside, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar Books

Several of the poems in Lyrics of the Hearthside had appeared previously in magazines such as The Ladies' Home Journal, The Century Magazine, and Cosmopolitan Magazine. The book also contains one of Dunbar's most famous poems, "Sympathy," which later inspired the title to Maya Angelou's autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. Many of the covers of Dunbar's published works reflect the tone of the works inside. Here, for example, the cover design incorporates cotton, connecting with Dunbar's descriptions of plantation agriculture and life.