Author: William Chase Stevens
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Languages : en
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Author: Margaret R. O’Leary/Dennis S. O’Leary
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491772735
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 710

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Across the span of more than forty years, Raphael Dorman O’Leary, a professor of English rhetoric and English literature, taught his students at the University of Kansas to think straight, to put sinew into their sentences, and to embrace the magnificent literary treasures of their mother tongue. The English Professor, by authors Margaret R. O’Leary and Dennis S. O’Leary, offers a narrative of the life, work, and times of a revered Midwestern university English teacher. This memoir narrates how the professor, born in 1866, was raised on a Kansas farm in the post-bellum era. Like his father before him, he was committed to a life of learning and teaching. His colleagues knew him for his unpretentious exterior, honesty, and integrity, and his flashing anger at cheapness, vulgarity, pretense, and, above all, charlatanism. When Professor O’Leary died after a short illness in 1936, his personal effects passed through two generations to his grandson, Dennis S. O’Leary, who, with his wife, Margaret, discovered his papers while restoring a family house. The trove of material served as the core resource for the compilation of The English Professor. It provides insights into the histories of Kansas and the University of Kansas and of Harvard University, as well as perspectives on higher education, including the teaching of English rhetoric, language, literature, journalism, and oratory in the United States.

Author: Margaret R. O’Leary
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491758732
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Over the span of forty years, Professor Raphael Dorman OLeary labored tirelessly to make his students understand the importance of originality and of apt expression in English composition. He especially loved words well chosen and dared his students to put beauty and smoothness and sinew into their sentences. He tried passionately to make them feel the dignity and the majesty of the English language at its best. When he died after a short illness in 1936, his personal effects passed among descendants until finally coming to rest with Dennis OLeary and his spouse, Margaret, who discovered them in a poor condition while restoring a family house. Amid Professor OLearys papers was his handwritten journal from the year 1914 to 1915. The journal displays the full measure of R. D. OLeary in his myriad academic, social, political, and religious experiences at the University of Kansas atop Mount Oread; in the adjacent city of Lawrence, Kansas; and while traveling to rural Kansas during the summer months and to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the dead of winter. Throughout his journal, Professor OLeary portrays with humor and pathos his encounters with students, colleagues, his spouse, his three sons, his mother, shopkeepers, religious zealots, pro-German zealots, anti-German zealots, drayers, Pullman conductors, bankers, politicians, publishers, educated spinsters, and garden wasps, while vividly describing cold classrooms, interminable whist parties, trilling sopranos, Kansas football games, and Lawrence seed stores. R. D. OLeary (18661936): Notes from Mount Oread 19141915 is a fascinating glimpse into the life and times of a revered English professor, half way through his forty years of teaching at the University of Kansas.

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Languages : en
Pages : 1486

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Author: Margaret R. O’Leary, MD
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491747463
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Over the span of forty years, Professor Raphael Dorman O'Leary passionately imparted to his students his love of writing and English literature at the University of Kansas. When he died after a short illness in 1936, his personal effects were passed to several relatives until Dennis O'Leary, and his wife, Margaret, discovered his papers while restoring a family house. Amid Professor O'Leary's papers were two slim and battered booklets containing the colorful journal that he kept during his sabbatical in Oxford, England, from 1910 to 1911. The journal paints a vibrant picture of O'Leary's academic, social, political, and religious encounters in Oxford, England, as he and his family attempted to adjust to an alien world. Professor O'Leary portrays with humor and pathos his myriad encounters with professors, politicians, Rhodes scholars, shopkeepers, nurses, street urchins, and mummers while vividly describing the dreary climate, tea and dinner parties, football games, the marketplace, musty bookstores, Oxford's slums, and the birth of his son in a rooming house bedroom. Notes from Oxford, 1910-1911 reveals a fascinating glimpse into the experiences of a revered English professor during his one-year sabbatical in Oxford, England.

Author: Sir James Allan Park
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Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Author: James Allan Park, Sir
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781358141782
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Languages : en
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Episcopal Church. Diocese of Pennsylvania. Bishop (1865-1872 : Stevens)
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Category : Americans
Languages : en
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Except for minor items, all papers date from Stevens's episcopate and most are correspondence with Bishop William Rollinson Whittingham. They cover a wide range, from personal affairs and health to his oversight of the Episcopal churches in Europe. Among many subjects are Stevens's European travels in 1866 and 1872; affairs of the Episcopal church in Florence, Italy, with references to the Reverend Pierce Connelly and the Reverend William Chauncy Langdon; church work in Geneva, Switzerland; canon law respecting the churches in Europe; and work of the Italian Church Reformation Commission of the House of Bishops from 1865. Nearer home are a visit to Hagerstown, Md., in 1864 during the Civil War; Stevens's appeal on behalf of the Freedmans' Commission of the Episcopal Church, and support of it, 1865-1868; involvement with the work of the Mexican Commission of the House of Bishops, 1874-1876; opposition to the Society of St. John the Evangelist (the Cowley Fathers) 1875; and many clergy matters. Among other subjects are relations with the Church of England and comments of Bishop Theodore B. Lyman on Stevens's sermon at the close of the Lambeth Conference, 1873. Also includes seven letters to and from Bishop William Pinkney of Maryland, about the Reverend Alfred G. Mortimer and other matters.

Author: James Allan Park (Sir )
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781348036609
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Languages : en
Pages : 192

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Michigan Historical Records Survey
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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