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Mayhew, Lewis B. – 1967
More and generally better books on higher education appeared in 1967. A great number of them were concerned with solving problems related to institutionalized religion at a time when the church-related college in the US finds itself confronted with the most serious challenges of its long history. Several better than average institutional histories…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Biographies, Black Education, Book Reviews
Eberhard, Wallace B.; Bickers, Christopher E. – 1974
Assembled as a preliminary list of publications concerning Georgia journalism, this selected, annotated bibliography is intended to be useful to secondary teachers interested in history and journalism, to be helpful to students and scholars of mass media, and to indicate some obvious gaps in the literature of journalism as it pertains to the state…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Autobiographies, Biographies, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Weeks, Robert P., Ed. – 1962
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Lillian Ross, Malcolm Crowley, E.M. Halliday, Harry Levin, Leslie Fiedler, D.H. Lawrence, Philip Young, Sean O'Faolain, Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Carlos Baker, Mark Spilka, Ray B. West, Jr., Nemi D'Agostino,…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
West, Paul, Ed. – 1963
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by G. Wilson Knight, Bernard Blackstone, Mario Praz, Paul West, Guy Steffan, F. R. Leavis, W. W. Robson, Helen Gardner, George M. Ridenour, Edmund Wilson, Gilbert Highet, Bertrand Russell, and John Wain--all dealing with the…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, English Literature, Higher Education
Watt, Ian, Ed. – 1963
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Edmund Wilson, Ian Watt, Alan D. McKillop, Reuben A. Brower, Marvin Mudrick, Mark Schorer, Arnold Kettle, Lionel Trilling, Kingsley Amis, Andrew H. Wright, Donald J. Greene, and D. W.…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, English Literature, Higher Education
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Campbell, Randolph B. – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 1979
Suggests that history teachers can increase student interest in United States history courses by using a biographical approach to teaching about individuals from many areas of American life. Surveys literary works and textbooks which lend themselves to incorporation into history courses. Journal availability: see SO 507 033. (DB)
Descriptors: Biographies, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, History Instruction
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Fley, Jo Ann – Journal of the NAWDAC, 1978
Reviews the life of Thomas Arkle Clark, former Dean of Men at the University of Illinois, whose writings and speeches helped define the Dean of Men role and publicize the office. (Author)
Descriptors: Biographies, Deans, Higher Education, History
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Schlick, Mary – Journal of Home Economics, 1977
The life, work, and influence of Lydia Fohn-Hansen on Alaska's development while serving as State leader for home economics extension and other related areas are described. (TA)
Descriptors: Biographies, Extension Agents, Extension Education, Females
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LaRocque, Geraldine E. – Reading Improvement, 1977
Presents special skills which help readers to enjoy and profit from reading various literary genres. (JM)
Descriptors: Biographies, Drama, Higher Education, Literary Genres
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Dowell, Connie V. – RQ, 1986
Provides an example of a course integrated library instruction assignment in biographical research for undergraduate journalism students. The assignment is shown to accomplish three goals: development of library skills, knowledge of important living journalists, and a review of interviewing techniques. (EM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Biographies, Higher Education, Interviews
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Davis, Mary – English Journal, 1985
Describes how students are able to empathize with women writers and each other by reading and writing autobiography. (CRH)
Descriptors: Assignments, Autobiographies, Biographies, Content Area Writing
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Ellman, Richard – American Scholar, 1984
Sigmund Freud's attitudes about writing biographies of authors, and the influence of Freud's work on the interpretations of creativity, are discussed in relation to biographies of and by a number of writers. It is proposed that Freud's contributions, used carefully, have served to enlighten biography. (MSE)
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Creativity, Higher Education
Weiner, Gaby – 2003
This paper explores the difficulty of claims to truth in the analysis of the life of the Victorian feminist, reformer, educationist, and celebrity, Harriet Martineau (1802-76). She was widely known as a truthful person. For example, her contemporary, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, wrote in 1845 that "her love of the truth is proverbial…
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational Research, Females, Feminism
Rappaport, Karen D. – MATYC Journal, 1980
Charlotte Angas Scott and Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, two important American women mathematicians, are profiled in this document. (MP)
Descriptors: Biographies, College Mathematics, Educational History, Higher Education
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Freedman, Morris – American Scholar, 1980
A personal memoir of Marjorie Hope Nicolson and the graduate English department she headed at Columbia University in the 1940s and 1950s. (SJL)
Descriptors: Biographies, Department Heads, Doctoral Programs, Educational History
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