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Rob Roy Purdy Papers

MSS 348

Arranged and described 2010 - 2011

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Scope and Content Note:

These papers are contained in 22 Hollinger boxes comprising 9.174 linear feet of

manuscript material and are made up of these series:

Writings

Academic Career

1956 Fugitive Reunion

Administrative Career

Writings by Others

Publications

Biographical Note

Rob Roy Purdy was born in Pensacola, Florida in 1914. He died in Nashville on

March 24, 1988 at the age of 74. He graduated from Davidson College, and came

to Vanderbilt in 1937. After receiving his master degree he taught at Florence State

College in Alabama for a year and served for two years in the Navy during World

War II. He then returned to Vanderbilt for his Ph.D. in English. He became a

member of the Vanderbilt English Faculty, and rose to the rank of full professor

teaching courses in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Chaucer and in Shakespeare and

Southern American Literature. In 1959 Professor Purdy became Vice Chancellor of

Academic Affairs at the University. At his retirement in 1979 he was awarded the

titles of Professor of English, Emeritus and Senior Vice-Chancellor Emeritus.

He was a member of the Committee of Educational Inquiry at Vanderbilt, one of

ten such committees sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation in U.S. and Canadian

Universities, and in 1956-57 he was the General Chairman of all ten committees.

Dr. Purdy was director of the Vanderbilt University Press from 1957 to 1959 and

Chairman of the University Committee on Athletics.

He edited for publication the many hours of tape from the 1956 Fugitive Reunion.

The finished work was published in May 1958 with the title Fugitives’ Reunion:

Conversations at Vanderbilt, May 3 -5, 1956.

He was married to Frances Edwards Purdy, and they had three sons.


Container List

Box 1

Writings by Purdy

1. “The Rise of the Bluestockings” - term paper

2. Platonic Tradition in Early English Literature - thesis by Rob Roy Purdy

under the direction of Walter Clyde Curry

3. Platonic Tradition in Early English Literature



6. “Chaucer and Cleopatra” - paper - 3 typescript copies

7. “Chaucer Scholarship in England and America: A Review of Recent

Trends” - typescript

8. “Chaucer Scholarship in England and America: A Review of Recent

Trends” - pamphlet reprint

9. “The Friendship Motif in Middle English Literature” reprinted from

Vanderbilt Studies in the Humanities,Vol. I, 1951

10. Review of Agnus Castus. Middle English Herbal Reconstructed from

various manuscripts. With correspondence

Academic Career – Courses – Old English

11. Tests and quizzes



Box 2

Academic Career - Courses - Old English

1. Notes for Anglo-Saxon Poetry

2. Anglo-Saxon Reports

Academic Career - Courses - Chaucer

3. English 315 - Notes





7. English 315 - “The Canterbury Pilgrims - Mural Paintings by Ezra Winter

8. Notes, papers, and other materials

9. House of Fame

10. English 220

Academic Career - Chaucer - Collection of Pamphlets and Reprints

11. Baugh, Albert Croll “Thomas Chaucer, One Man or Two?”

Braddy, Haldeen “The Historical Background of the Parlement of Foules”

Brown,Carleton “The Man of Law’s Head-link and the Prologue of the

Canterbury Tales”

Cunningham, J. V. “The Literary Form of the Prologue to the Canterbury

Tales

Dempster, Germaine “Manly’s Conception of the Early History of the

Canterbury Tales”

12. Donaldson, E.Talbot “Chaucer’s Final –e”

Dunn, Thomas F. “The Manuscript Source of Caxton’s Second Edition of

the Canterbury Tales”

13. Goddard, H. C. “Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women”

Hamilton, Marie P. “The Credentials of Chaucer’s Pardoner

14. Jones, Richard F. “ A Conjecture on the Wife of Bath’s Prologue”

Kuhl, Ernest P. “Chaucer’s ‘My Maistre Bukton’”

Linn, Irving “The Arming of Sir Thopas”

Manly, John Matthews “Three Recent Chaucer Studies”

Moore, Arthur K. “Chaucer and Matheolus”

15. Parr, Johnstone “The Date and Revision of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale”

Pratt, Robert “Was Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale Extensively Revised After the

Middle of 1390?”; “Chaucer Borrowing from Himself”; “Geoffrey Chaucer,

Esq. and Sir John Hawkwood”; “ A Note on Chaucer’s Lollius”; “The

Importance of Manuscripts for the Study of Medieval Education, as

Revealed by the Learning of Chaucer”; “A Note on Chaucer and the

Policraticus of John of Salisbury”; “The Order of the Canterbury Tales”

16. Rickert, Edith “Was Chaucer a Student at the Inner Temple?”

17. Severs, J. Burke “The Clerk’s Tale”

Slaughter, Eugene E. “Clerk Jankyn’s Motive”; “Chaucer’s Pandarus:

Virtuous Uncle and Friend”

Smith, Roland M. “Two Chaucer Notes Three Notes on the Knight’s Tale”

Tatlock, J.S.P. “The Canterbury Tales in 1400”

18. Starr, Herbert “Oaths in Chaucer’s Poems”


Stearns, Marshall “A Note on Chaucer’s Attitude Toward Love”; A Note on

Chaucer’s Use of Aristotelian Psychology”

19. Young, Karl “ Aspects of the Story of Troilus and Criseyde”; Chaucer’s

‘Troilus and Criseyde’ as Romance”; “Chaucer and Aulus Gellius”

Other writings about Chaucer and other English literature subjects may be

found in the series Writings by Others.

Box 3

Academic Career - Courses - Shakespeare

1. English 210 - History of Drama

2. English 320A

3. English 320A

4. English 320A

5. English 320B - Teaching notes

6. English 320B - Teaching notes

7. English 320 - Teaching notes



10. English 320 - Exams

Academic Career – other courses

11.English 240 and S 442 - exam questions and notes

12.Southern Literature - teaching notes

13.English 305 - 2

14.Platonism

15.Platonism

16.Platonism

17.Platonism

18.Platonism

19.Platonism

20.Platonism

21.Platonism

Box 4

Academic Career - Collected material by date


1. Final report of the Committee on the Senior College and the Committee on

the Junior College, February 23, 1937

2. Report of the Junior College Curriculum Committee, February 6, 1948

3. Student Christian Association of V.U., 1951

4. Statistical Tables of Peabody - Vanderbilt Affiliation, Summer 1947 - Fall

1950

5. Men’s residences - papers

6. Peabody College - Plan of Cooperation with Vanderbilt University, February

1952

7. Curriculum Committee Reports - May 6, 1952, April 7, 1953

8. Report - “ Some Curricular Developments in U.S. Colleges, February 1953

9. Committee on the Un-American Activities, February 25 - 27, 1953

10. WVU “The Voice of Vanderbilt” (1954)

11. Memorandum - “Organization of the Schools and Colleges of Vanderbilt

University”

12. Report of the Curriculum Committee, May 10, 1957

13. Teacher Training - Aspen Conference - 1958 - 59

14. “Comments by Randall Jarrell, May 13, 1957; “What the Colleges are

Doing” Fall 1959 and other articles

15. Dr. Richmond C. Beatty Project, 1961

Box 5

Academic Career – Collected material by date

1. 1933, 1954 - Isabel Howell

2. 1955 - Newspaper clippings - Walter Clyde Curry and others

3. 1957 - Newspapers clippings - Caroline Gordon and Allen Tate

4. 1958 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium

5. 1959 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium

6. 1960 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium, Brainard Cheney, Sam Davis

facsimile letter and other

7. 1961 - Correspondence and newspaper clippings

8. 1962 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium and other programs, newspaper

clippings

9. 1963 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium, newspaper clippings and obituary

for Richard Weaver

10. 1963 - Newspaper clippings – Vanderbilt faculty and Alexander Heard


11. 1964 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium, newspaper clippings, and

correspondence cards

12. 1965 - Randall Stewart Memorial Collection

13. 1965 - Newspaper clippings

14. 1966 - Donald Davidson – correspondence, programs, newspaper clippings

15. 1966 -Vanderbilt Literary Symposium; newspaper clippings

Box 6

Academic Career - Collected material by date

1. 1967 - Correspondence and newspaper clippings on English faculty

2. 1967 - Newspaper clippings and reviews, note from Walter C. Curry

3. 1968 – Vanderbilt Literary Symposium programs

4. 1968 - Book review “Real Tragedy of the South

5. 1968 - Newspaper articles and reviews

6. 1969 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium program; VU Public Lecture

Series program

7. 1971 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium program

8. 1972 - “50 Candles for the Fugitives” Special edition newspaper, April

19, 1972

9. 1976-77 - Allen Tate - correspondence and newspaper clippings

10. 1977 - James Dickey - newspaper articles

Academic Career – Statements and Papers

11. Proposed Freshman Course “Culture of the West”

12. Statements on the Humanities by VU and other faculty




16. Papers on Liberal Education



Box 7

Academic Career


1956 Fugitive Reunion - Transcripts

1. Reel 1 , May 3, 1956, 3:00PM Neely Auditorium

2. Reel 2, May 3, 1956, 3:00 PM Neely Auditorium

3. Reel 3, May 3, 1956, 6:00 PM Rand Hall

4. Reel 4, May 3, 1956, 6:00PM Rand Hall

5. Reel 5, May 3, 1956, Rand Hall Dinner, closed session number one

6. Reel 6, May 3, 1956, 9:30 - 11:45 PM, Part II, closed Session number one

7. Reel 7, May 3, 1956, 9:30 - 11:45 PM, Part III, closed session number one

8. Reel 8, May 3, 1956, 9:30 - 11:45 PM, Part IV, closed session number one

9. Reel 9, May 3, 1956, 9:30 - 11:45 PM, End of closed session number one

10. Reel 10, May 4, 1956, 10:30am - Jesse Wills’ house, closed session number

two

Box 8

1956 Fugitive Reunion – Transcripts

1. Reel 11, May 4th

, 10:30 - 4:00, Part III, closed session number two

2. Reel 12, May 4th

, 10:30 - 4:00, Part IV, closed session number two

3. Reel 13, May 4th

, 10:30 - 4:00, Part V, closed session number two

4. Reel 14, May 4th

, 10:30 - 4:00, Part VI, closed session number two

5. Reel 15, May 4th

, 10:30 - 4:00, Part VII, conclusion closed session number

two

6. Reel 16, May 5th

, 10:00 - 12:00, Faculty lounge, Alumni Hall, Vanderbilt

University, Part II, closed session number three

7. Reel 17, May 5th

, 10:00 -12:00 Faculty lounge, Alumni Hall, Vanderbilt

University, Part III, closed session number three

8. Reel 18, May 5th

, 10:00 -12:00, Faculty lounge, Alumni Hall, Vanderbilt

University, Part IV, conclusion closed session number three

9. Reel 19, May 5th

, 1:15 PM, Rand Hall Dining Room, Part II, closing session

with summary comments by Robert Penn Warren

10. Reel 20,May 4th

, 6 - 8PM, Belle Meade Country Club

11. Reel 21, May 4th

, 8:30PM Neely Auditorium

Box 9

Academic Career

1956 Fugitive Reunion - Transcripts


1. Reel 22, May 4th

, 8:30PM, Neely Auditorium

2. Reel 23, May 4th


3. Reel 24, May 4th


4. Reel 25, May 4th

, 8:30 P.M. Neely Auditorium

5. Reel 26, May 4th

, 8:30 P.M. Neely Auditorium

6. Transcript corrections by William Y. Elliott

1956 Fugitive Reunion - Other

7. Correspondence, book reviews, and other

8. Correspondence, book reviews, and other

9. Correspondence and other papers




13. Photograph of 5 Fugitives and Vanderbilt Alumnus, May - June 1956

1967 Fugitive Collection

14. Correspondence and articles

Other Fugitive materials

15.“The Fugitive Clippings and Comment” collected by Merrill Moore;

“The Fugitive Particular: John Crowe Ransom Critic” by Morgan Blum

Box 10

Academic Career – Carnegie Corporation – Committees of Educational

Inquiry (CEI)

1. Quarterly reports - October, 1953; January, 1955; July, 1955; July 1956;

October 1956; January 1957

2. CEI - Edgewater Conference, November 1952

3. CEI - Reading Review Notes, # 1 - 6, February - August 1953

4. CEI - Chicago Meeting, October 1953

5. CEI - Washington Meeting, October 1953

6. CEI - Organization and Purpose - A Pioneer Project Assessed

7. CEI - Stanford Report

8. CEI - Members


9. CEI - Newsletters, #1, #2, #3

Academic Career – Liberal Arts Colleges

10. Proceedings of Oklahoma Conference

11. Report - Aims of Liberal Education

12. Reports - “The Plight of the Private Liberal Arts College”; Liberal Arts

Education at the Mid-Century

13. Report - The Humanities at Oberlin, 1958

Academic Career - other

14. “An Academic Costume Code and Ceremony Guide”

15. Publications concerning scholarship

16. Guide to Scholarly Periodicals, 1958 - 59

17. Anglo - Saxon - newspaper articles

18. Teacher Education and Certification - Guide to Study

19. Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, 1959

20. Publications of the Southern Humanities Conference, 1949 - 58

Box 11

Administrative Career - Speeches, Papers, Addresses

1. “Higher Education and Democracy” paper presented to the Coffee House

Club, February 20, 1964

2. “Higher Education and Democracy” paper presented to the Coffee House

Club, February 20, 1964

3. “The Fugitive Poets” paper presented to the Coffee House Club - drafts,

notes, sources

4. “The Problem of Admisssions at Vanderbilt” in Vanderbilt Alumnus, Vol.

51, no. 3, November - December, 1965; “ A Summary of Athletic Grants-

in-Aid Awarded by S.E.C. Member Schools in Sports Other than Football

and Basketball for 1962 -63 Academic Year

5. “Admissions and Athletics” 1965 - 66 - Speech to Alumni

6. Remarks at the Holland Society Dinner honoring Governor William H.

Vanderbilt in New York City, February 20 - 21, 1970

7. Alumni Club Speeches - Houston, Montgomery, and Tupelo, 1970

8. “The Alumni Mystique” July 1971

9. “The Alumni Mystique” - notes and emendations


10. Address to the Civitan Club, August 3, 1972

11. Report on Athletics to Alumni Board with notes, May 13, 1974

12. Remarks on Athletics at Board Meeting, April 30, with notes - May 1, 1976

13. Remarks at memorial service for Jesse E. Wills, March 7, 1977, with

correspondence

14. Remarks at memorial service for Jesse E. Wills, March 7, 1977, with

correspondence

15. Memorial resolutions for Dorothy Minnich, Frank Blood, William N.

Pearson

16. Memorial resolutions for Donald Davidson, Walter Clyde Curry, Julia

Hereford, Randall Stewart

17. Commencement addresses - Florence State College, Montevallo, Scarritt,

David Lipscomb College

Box 12


1. “In Loco Parentis” papers and rough draft




5. Speeches, with biographical note

6. Speeches

7. Speeches

8. Speeches

9. Speeches

10. Speeches

11. Speech material

12. Speech material

13. Speech material

14. Speech material

15. Speech material

16. Speech material

17. Speech material

18. Speech material - Vanderbilt University

19. Speech material - Admissions at VU

Box 13



1. Chancellor’s Speeches






7. Chancellor’s Speeches - Alexander Heard




Administrative Career - Collection of Speeches and Addresses by others

11. Alexander Heard; Wendell Holladay; Harold Howe, II; Huston Smith

12. Frank G. Dickey; Raymond J. Seeger

13. M.M. Chambers; Alvin C. Eurich; W. Allen Wallis

14. Harvie Branscomb; Nathan Marsh Pusey

15. Dean L. Beach in honor of Chancellor Branscomb; John S. Dickey; Louis

E. Wolfson; N. Floyd McGowin

16. Gerald Barradas with opinion and notes of Judge Robert N. Wilkin; Robert

L. Hershey; Leo J. Raskind

17. Spiro T. Agnew, Vice-President of U.S.; Richard M. Nixon, President U.S.

18. Dr. Grayson Kirk, partial text of address, January 7, 1960

Box 14


1. Cruise - July 6 - 21, 1960

2. Board of Trust papers - Minutes and other papers re: meeting November 11 -

12, 1966

3. Board of Trust papers - Minutes and other papers re: meeting November 11 -

12, 1966

4. Board of Trust papers - Executive Committee - Minutes - meetings February

8, 1967 and June 27, 1967

5. Board of Trust papers - agenda - November 10 - 11, 1967

6. Board of Trust papers - Executive Committee - March 12, 1968 - November

30, 1977


7. Board of Trust papers re: meeting May 2 - 3, 1969

8. Papers from the President to Presidents Conference, October 1 - 3, 1971,

Washington, D.C.

9. Visit to Strategic Air Command Headquarters, October 20 - 21, 1971

10. Vanderbilt University Alumni Association, London Tour, October 1 - 9,

1973

11. Vanderbilt University Admissions - Key to Charts

12. Vanderbilt University, Department of Athletics - Five Year Capital

Improvements, June 7, 1977

13. Athletics - articles and newspaper clippings

14. Athletics - articles and newspaper clippings

15. Campaign totals by Purpose/ Appendix II, III with correspondence

Box 15


1. Campaign totals - copy for Dale Klaus

2. Interrelated Programs in Liberal Arts

3. Vanderbilt Policy

4. Vanderbilt Policy

5. Vanderbilt Student Communications with By-Laws Revisions

6. Vanderbilt Student Communications with By-Laws Revisions

7. Student Affairs - newspaper clippings

8. Student Affairs - newspaper clippings

9. Student and University Affairs - newspaper clippings






Box 16







5. Students (Xerox copy - 99 pages and footnotes)

6. Student Affairs at other universities - newspaper clippings

7. Student Affairs at other universities - newspaper clippings

8. Student Affairs at other universities - University of Chicago, Chicago

Maroon

9. Student Affairs at other universities - Chicago Maroon and other Chicago

papers

10. Student Affairs at other universities - Chicago and others

11. Insurance information

Box 17

Writings by Others

1. Allen, Don Cameron “The Classical Scholarship of Francis Meres”

Bandy, W.T. “Bulletin Baudelairien”

Baugh, Albert C. “A Fraternity of Drinkers”

Baughn, Denver Ewing “Sir Philip Sidney and the Matchmakers”

2. Beatty, Richmond C. “Whitman’s Political Thought”; “Allen Tate as Man of

Letters”

3. Bethurum, Dorothy “The Form of Aelfric’s Lives of the Saints; “Six

Anonymous Old English Codes”; Review of Visions from Piers Plowman

4. Blair, Lawrence “English Church Ales: with a Note on Church Fairs”; “ A

List of Churchwardens’ Accounts”

5. Boas, George “The Humanities and the Sciences”

Boswell, George W. “Five Choice Tennessee Folk Songs”

6. Bond, Richmond P. “Eighteenth Century Correspondence: A Survey”

Bowling, Lawrence Edward “Faulkner: The Theme of Pride in The Sound

and the Fury”; “The Thematic Framework of Romeo and Juliet”;

“Thoreau’s Social Criticism as Poetry”; “William Faulkner: The Importance

of Love”

7. Braddy, Haldeen “Chaucer and Graunson: The Valentine Tradition”;

“Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess and Two of Granson’s

Complaintes”;”Chaucer’s Comic Valentine”; “Chaucer’s Don Pedro and the

Purpose of The Monk’s Tale”; “The Date of Chaucer’s Lak of

Steadfastnesse”; “New Documentary Evidence Concerning Chaucer’s

Mission to Lombardy”; “On Rereading Chaucer”; “Three Chaucer Notes”;

“the Two Petros in the ‘Monkes Tale’”

8. Bradford, Melvin E. “Faulkner’s ‘Tall Men’”; “Faulkner and the

Jeffersonian Dream: Nationalism in ‘Two Soldiers’ and ‘Shall not Perish’”;


“Brotherhood in ‘The Bear’: An Exemplum for Critics”; “How Soon the

Winter: Meaning and Metaphor in Donald Davidson’s ‘A Touch of Snow’”

9. Branscomb, Harvie “The Contribution of Moral and Spiritual Ideas to the

Making of the American Way of Life”; “Intercollegiate Athletics in the

Southern Association”; $20,000,000 a Year Spent Right Here: What the

Colleges Contribute to the economy of Nashville”

10. Brie, Friedrich “The Deceyte of Women: aelteste englishche

Novellensammlung (1547)

11. Bryant, Joseph Allen “Brief Articles and Notes”; “Milton and the Art of

History: A Study of Two Influences on a Brief History of Moscovia”

“Milton’s Views on Universal and Civil Decay”; “The Nature of the Conflict

in Jonson’s Sejanus”; “A Note of Milton’s Use of Machiavelli’s Discorsi”

12. Bryson, Frederick Robertson “The Point of Honor in Sixteenth Century

Italy: As Aspect of the Life of the Gentleman”

13. Busby, Olive Mary “Studies in the Development of the Fool in the

Elizabethan Drama”

14. Campbell, Harry Modean “The Hanging Scene in Melville’s Billy Budd,

Foretopman”; “Structural Devices in the Works of Faulkner”; “Warren as

Philosopher in World Enough and Time”

15. Carpenter, Nan Cooke “Music in the Secunda Pastorum”; “ Rabelais and the

Chanson”

16. Cate, Wirt Armistead “The Problem of the Origin of the Griselda Story”

17. Chambers, A.B. “Absalom and Achitophel: Christ and Satan”; “ The

Meaning of the ‘Temple’ in Donne’s La Corona”

Clarke, Robert T. “Herder, Percy, and the Song of Songs”

18. Coffman, George R. “The Mediaeval Academy, Evaluation and

Reevaluation”; “Old Age from Horace to Chaucer: Some Literary Affinities

and Adventures of an Idea”

19. Cohen, Joseph “In Memory of W.B. Yeats and Wilfred Owen”; “Isaac

Rosenberg: From Romantic to Classic”; “ Wouk’s Morningstar and

Hemingway’s Sun”

Box 18

Writings by Others

1. Crow, Martin M. “Materials for a New Edition of the Chaucer Life –

Records”

Cunningham, J. V. “Essence” and the Phoenix and Turtle


2. Curry, Walter Clyde “Chauntecleer and Pertelote on Dreams”; “ The

Consistence and Qualities of Milton’s Chaos”; “ The Genesis of Milton’s

World”; “Milton’s Chaos and Old Night”; “ Some Travels of Milton’s Satan

and the Road to Hell”

3. Davidson, Donald “To the Warders of the Gate”

4. Delzell, Charles F. “The European Federalist Movement in Italy: First

Phase, 1918 -1947”; “Italy in Modern Times: An Introduction to the

Historical Literature in English”; Review of “ Mussolini’s Italy Twenty

Years After”

5. Dempster, Germaine “A Chapter of the Manuscript History of the

Canterbury Tales”; “Did Chaucer Write An Holy Medytacion?”; “ A

Period in the Development of the Canterbury Tales Marriage Group and of

Blocks B2 and C”

6. Duncan, Edgar Hill “The Alchemy in Jonson’s Mercury Vindicated”;

“’Bear in Hand’ in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue”; “Jonson’s Alchemist and

the Literature of Alchemy”; “The Yeoman’s Canon’s ‘Silver Citrinacioun’”;

The Humanities in Higher Education in the South

7. Fairfield, Roy P. “A Decade of ‘Cultch’”

8. Finney, Claude Lee “Keats’s Philosophy of Negative Capability in its

Philosophical Backgrounds”

9. Gates, W.B. “Cooper’s Indebtedness to Shakespeare”; “Cooper’s The Crater

and Two Explorers

10. Gayre of Gayre, R. “ The Mankind Quarterly Under Attack”

11. Gerould, Gordon Hall “The Social Status of Chaucer’s Franklin”

12. Graves, Thornton Shirley “The Court and the London Theatres During the

Reign of Elizabeth”

13. Gray, Henry David “The Original Version of ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ with a

conjecture as to ‘Love’s Labour’s Won’”

14. Graydon, Joseph “ Defense of Criseyde”

Harder, Kelsie “Charactonyms in Faulkner’s Novels”

15. Hardie, Robert H., et. Al. “On Reducing the Periodic Error in a Telescope

Drive”; “Photoelectric Reductions”; “ Three – Color Photometry of 56

Arietis”; Three – Color Photometry of cy Aquarii”; Dyer Observatory

Report, 1963

16. Hildago, Carlos F. “Juan Ramon Molina, the Poet of Honduras”

17. Hitt, Ralph E. “Chauntecleer as Mock-Hero of the ‘Nun’s Priest’s Tale’”

Hodges, John C. “Fresh MS Sources for a Life of William Congreve”

18. Hollins Critic “Hard Times and the Noble Savage: J.P. Donleavy’s A

Singular Man” by John Rees Moore; “John Cheever and the Charms of

Innocence: The Craft of The Wapshot Scandal” by George Garrett;


“Hunting a Master Image: The Poetry of Richard Eberhart” by Daniel

Hoffman; “The Search for Lost Innocence: Karl Shapiro’s The Bourgeois

Poet” by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.; “The Long Chronicle of Guilt: William

Golding’s The Spire” by Walter Sullivan

19. Horrell, Joe “Chaucer’s Symbolic Plowman”

Hudson, Robert Lofton “The Sermon as Teaching with Special Emphasis on

Motivation”

20. Hulbert, James R. “Beowulf and the Classical Epic”

21. Hunt, Douglas L. “The Life and Work of Charles Hoyt”

Hunter, William B., Jr. “ Milton on the Nature of Man”; “Poe’s ‘The

Sleeper’ and Macbeth

22. Huppe, Bernard F. “The Authorship of the A and B Texts of Piers Plowman

Box 19

Writings by Others

1. Kern, Alfred Allan “The Ancestry of Chaucer”

2. Kirby, T.A. Review of The Gawain Poet: Studies in His Personality and

Background

Long, Hudson “Sut Lovingood and Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc

3. Lumiansky, R. M. “The Function of the Proverbial Monitory Elements in

Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”

4. McGalliard, John C. “Chaucer’s ‘Merchant’s Tale’ and Deschamps’ Miroir

de Mariage”

5. Mims, Edwin “John Maurice Webb, 1847 - 1916”; “Woodrow Wilson: The

Happy Warrior”

6. Moore, Arthur K. “Chaucer’s Lost Songs”; “The Eyen Greye of Chaucer’s

Prioress”; “The Pardoner’s Interruption of the Wife of Bath Prologue”;

“Types of the Folk Song ‘Father Grumble’”; “The Setting of the Tua Mariit

Wemen and athe Wedo”; “Some Implications of the Middle English Craft of

Lovers”

7. Nixon, H.C. “ A Thirty Years’ Personal View”; “The Southern Governor’s

Conference as A Pressure Group”

8. Norton, Herman “Revivalism in the Confederate Armies”

9. Owen, Charles A., Jr. “The Role of the Narrator in the ‘Parlement of

Foules’”

Ownbey, E. Sydnor “Merlin and Arthur: A Study of Merlin’s Character and

Function in the Romances Dealing with the Early Life of Arthur”


10. Owsley, Harriet Chappell “Henry Shelton Sanford and Federal Surveillance

Abroad, 1861 - 1865”

Parks, Edd Winfield “ Howells and the Gentle Reader”

11. Parr, Johnstone “The Horoscope of Mycetes in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine I;

“The Site and Ancient City of Browning’s Love Among the Ruins;

“Astronomical Dating for Some of Lydgate’s Poems”; Edmund’s Nativity in

King Lear”; “The Duke of Byron’s Malignant Caput Algol”; “Horoscope in

Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi”; “Sources of the Astrological Prefaces in

Robert Greene’s Planetomachia”

12. Patch, Howard R. Patch “Precious Stones in The House of Fame”;

“Necessity in Boethius and the Neoplatonists”; “Chaucer and the Common

People”; “Chaucer and Mediaeval Romance”

Phillips, Dayton “Ferguson’s History of the Periodic Conception of the

Renaissance”

13. Powell, Arnold F. “The Melting Mood: A Study of the Function of Pathos in

English Tragedy through Shakespeare”

14. Pratt, Robert A. “Giovanni Sercambi, Speziale”; “’Joye After Wo’ in the

Knight’s Tale”; “Chaucer and the Hand that Fed Him”; “The Order of the

Canterbury Tales”; “Was Robyn the Miller’s Youth Misspent?”; “Review:

the Literary Relationships of Chaucer’s Tale (J.B. Severs)”; Chaucer’s

Claudian”

15. Pratt, Robert A. “Chaucer’s ‘Natal Jove’ and ‘Seint Jerome . . .Agayn

Jovinian’”; “Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves: Medieval Antimatrimonial

Propaganda in the Universities”; “Saint Jerome in Jankyn’s Book of Wikked

Wyves”; “ Symkyn Koude ‘Turne Coppes’: the Reeves Tale 3928”;

“Chaucer and the Pillars of Hercules”

16. Ransom, Ellene “Utopus Discovers America or Critical Realism in

American Utopian Fiction, 1798 - 1900” - summary of a thesis

17. Roberts, Henry L. “Recent Books on International Relations”

18. Rosenblatt, Maurice “Drumhead Justice: the Facts about Army Courts

Martial”

19. Rysan, Josef “Mythological Solution of Crisis: a Parallet between Luther’s

and Hitler’s Germany”; “Is Our Civilization Creating a New Folklore?”

Box 20

Writings by Others

1. Sanborn, Herbert C. “Desegregation and Ethics”; “The Democratic Control

of Education”; “Lines for a ‘Dying Republic’”; “The Meeting Point of


Philosophy and Psychology”; Methodology and the Monkey States”;

“Methodology and the Problem of Musical Expression”; “Dingler’s

Methodical Philosophy”

2. Seeger, Raymond J. “Galileo, Yesterday and Today”

3. Sellers, James “The Almost Chosen People: A Theological Approach to

American Society”

4. Sensabaugh, George “Burton’s Influence on Ford’s The Lover’s

Melancholy”

5. Silberman, Lou H. “Judaism in the United States in the Early Nineteenth

Century”; “The Paradoxes of Freedom and Authority”

6. Slaughter, Eugene Edward “ ‘Allas!Allas! That Ever Love Was Sinne!’”;

“Every Vertu at His Reste’”; “Love and the Virtues and Vices in Chaucer”

Smith, Roland M. “Three Obscure English Proverbs”; “The Six Gifts”;

Review of The Works of Edmund Spenser

7. Spears, Monroe K. Review of The Enchafed Flood; “Christopher Fry and

the Redemption of Joy”; “The Meaning of Matthew Prior’s Alma”; “

Matthew Prior’s Attitude Toward Natural Science”; “The Failure of

Language”

8. Spears, Monroe K. “The Criticism of Allen Tate”

9. Spears, Monroe K. Review “The Mysterious Urn”; “The Southern

Vanguard”; “Matthew Prior’s Religion”

10. Steadman, J.M. “The Ingeld Episode in Beowulf: History or Prophecy?”

11. Stevens, Wallace “Two or Three Ideas”

Stevenson, John W. “The Literary Reputation of Stephen Crane”

Stillwell, Gardiner “Unity and Comedy in Chaucer’s Parlement of Foules”

12. Stewart, Randall “Editing The American Notebooks”; “The Relation

Between Fugitives and Agrarians”

Svendsen, Kester “The New Damoetas”

13. Swan, Donald “Genetics and psychology”; A Rorschach study of the

development of personality structure in white and negro children in a

southeastern community”

14. Tavenner, Eugene “Roman Moon Lore”; “The Amulet in Roman Curative

Medicine”

15. Thaler, Alwin “’The Devil’s Crest’ in Measure for Measure”; “Literary

Criticism in a Mirror for Magistrates”

16. Touster, Eva “Metrical Variations as a Poetic Device in Beowulf”

Walker, Curtis “Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Disaster at Cadmos Mountain

on the Second Crusade”


17. Watkins, Floyd “The Political Career of James Kirke Paulding”; “James

Kirke Paulding and the South”; “James Kirke Paulding’s Early Ring-Tailed

Roarer”; “ The Southern Mountaineers’ Archaic English”; Thomas Wolfe

and the Nashville Agrarians”; “Thomas Wolfe and the Southern

Mountaineer”; “Notes and Queries: ‘Benito Cereno’: A Note in Rebuttal”;

“Flaubert, Yeats and the National Library”

18. West, Robert “Milton’s Angelological Heresies”

Willems, Von Emilio “Protestantismus und Kulturwandel in Brasilien und

Chile”

19. Wright, Louis B. “The Reading of Renaissance English Women”; “Madmen

as Vaudeville Performers on the Elizabethan Stage”

Zeek, C.F. “Balzac as a Business Man”

Box 21

Collection of Publications

1. Carnegie Corporation of New York Quarterly, July 1957 - April 1959

2. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1952

3. CEA Critic - Newsletter of the College English Association

4. Council for Basic Education Bulletin, 1957 - 1959

5. Davidson College Bulletin, August 1958

6. Howard College Bulletin “ Shakespeare and the Troy Story” June 1922

7. Inside the ACD - Notes and Questions on American English, issues from

1948 - 1955

8. ITEMS - Social Science Research Council,June 1950, September 1958

9. The Mole, November 1949, May 1950

10. The Shakespeare Newsletter, 1951, 1952

11. South Atlantic Bulletin, May 1957

12. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin, December 1952

13. The Superior Student - Newsletter of the Inter-University Committee on the

Superior Student, 1958 - 59

Box 22

Collection of Publications

1. What the Colleges are Doing - No. 87, Spring 1950; No. 95, January 1953;

No. 102, Spring 1955; No. 103, Fall 1955


2. What the Colleges are Doing - No. 106, Fall 1956; No. 107, Winter 1957;

No. 109, December 1957; No. 111, May 1958; No. 113, Winter 1959

3. Word Study

4. Word Study

5. “Literature, Art, and Social Change in England, 1789 -1870” - University of

London program booklets

6. Pamphlets and reprints - Business and Industry

7. Pamphlets and reprints - Business and Industry

8. Educational

9. Educational - Teachers and training

10. Educational - other universities

11. Educational - other universities

12. Educational - Summer schools at British Universities, 1959

13. Educational - Church and Religion

14. Educational - Scholastic Aptitude Test, 1956; Advanced Placement Tests,

1955 - 56

15. Educational - Addresses and interviews

16. Educational - School and Society, November 29, 1947


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