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The English Department in 1910: A Picture and a Brief History

Willard Thorp arrived in Princeton in the autumn of 1924 to pursue his doctorate in English, which he received in 1926. Some of the men who guided him through his graduate work and later became his colleagues were among the first of a new breed, Woodrow Wilson's "preceptor guys." In t...

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Published in:The Princeton University Library chronicle 1993, Vol.54 (2/3), p.146-177
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