(Encyclopedia) Hesse, HermannHesse, Hermannhĕrˈmän [key]Hesse, Hermann hĕsˈə [key], 1877–1962, German novelist and poet. A pacifist, he went to Switzerland at the outbreak of World War I and became (…
by W. B. Yeats The Three O'Byrnes and the Evil FaeriesThe Thick Skull of the FortunateDrumcliff and Rosses Drumcliff and Rosses were, are, and ever shall be, please Heaven! places of…
Matthew Chapter 15 1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, 2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not…
The figure which comes out to strike the hours on the bell of a clock. A contraction of Jaquemart (q.v.). King Richard. Well, but what's o'clock? Buckingham. Upon the stroke of ten. K. R.…
(Encyclopedia) L'Amour, Louis, 1908–88, American writer of western fiction, b. Jamestown, N.Dak., as Louis Dearborn LaMoore. He began writing in the 1940s, contributing stories to magazines under the…
(Encyclopedia) open education, also known as open classroom, type of educational reform. The central tenet of this informal system is that children want to learn and will do so naturally if left to…
(Encyclopedia) Drayton, Michael, 1563–1631, English poet. The son of a prosperous tradesman, he received his educational training in the house of Sir Henry Goodere, where he served as page. There he…
(Encyclopedia) Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892–1962, American physicist, b. Wooster, Ohio, grad. College of Wooster (B.S., 1913), Ph.D. Princeton, 1916. He was professor and head of the department of…
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