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Myers, Gustavus

(Encyclopedia) Myers, Gustavus, 1872–1942, American historian, b. Trenton, N.J. He worked on a number of newspapers and magazines in New York City, joined the Populist party and the Social Reform…

Hicks, Granville

(Encyclopedia) Hicks, Granville, 1901–82, American writer, b. Exeter, N.H. A member of the Communist party, he edited The New Masses and wrote a pioneering Marxist interpretation of American…

Ohio State University

(Encyclopedia) Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878.…

Andrade, Mário de

(Encyclopedia) Andrade, Mário deAndrade, Mário deändräˈthā [key], 1893–1945, Brazilian author. Through his fiction, poetry, and wide-ranging essays, Andrade became a leading representative of…

Sherman, Stuart Pratt

(Encyclopedia) Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881–1926, American critic and editor, b. Anita, Iowa, grad. Williams, 1900, Ph.D. Harvard, 1906. Professor of English at the Univ. of Illinois from 1907 to 1924…

Duyckinck, Evert Augustus

(Encyclopedia) Duyckinck, Evert AugustusDuyckinck, Evert Augustusdīˈkĭngk [key], 1816–78, American editor and biographer, b. New York City, grad. Columbia, 1835. From 1840 to 1842 he edited Arturus,…

Virginia, University of

(Encyclopedia) Virginia, University of, mainly at Charlottesville; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1819, opened 1825 with Thomas Jefferson as its rector. Jefferson also planned the…

Matthiessen, F. O.

(Encyclopedia) Matthiessen, F. O. (Francis Otto Matthiessen)Matthiessen, F. O.măthˈĭsĕn [key], 1902–50, American critic, b. Pasadena, Calif., grad. Yale Univ., 1923, B.Litt., Oxford, 1925, Ph.D.,…

Bloomgarden, Solomon

(Encyclopedia) Bloomgarden or Blumengarten, Solomon, pseud. YehoashYehoashyēhōˈäsh [key], 1870–1927, American writer in Yiddish, b. Lithuania. He emigrated to America in 1891 and, except for 10 years…

Howard University

(Encyclopedia) Howard University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; with federal support. It was founded in 1867 by Gen. Oliver O. Howard of the Freedmen's Bureau, to provide education for newly…