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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, Dennis S. O'Leary
ISBN-10: 1491773308
ISBN-13: 9781491773307
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2016
Pages: 710
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.69d
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