Word: peterkin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BLACK APRIL-Julia Peterkin- Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). A small book of sketches called Green Thursday, published three years ago, revealed Mrs. Peterkin as an interpreter of Negro peasants whose equal had not been seen since Joel Chandler Harris. Now Mrs. Peterkin has fulfilled the implication of her sketch book with a tremendous painting, a mural in sharp tempera, upon which appears the entire population of an isolated plantation-all the huts, with the doors open, all the hearths, pots, newspapered walls and floor chinks; all the hound dogs, sow pens, butchered hogs, wood piles; all the murmurous lanes and sweaty...
...Spartanburg, S. C.) where she took a master's degree at 17. She taught school until she met and married William G. Peterkin, prosperous planter. She put by her plans for a musical and perhaps theatrical career to manage the Peterkin plantation, "Lang Syne," 40 miles from Columbia, S. C., and bring up a son who is now 22. She became "a superb horsewoman, a keen huntswoman and an excellent shot." Not until the 1920's did she start writing and her first things won instant recognition, including an O. Henry Memorial mention. A professor-friend describes...
...spoke ten minutes each in the final round, held in the Paine Hall of the Music Building. Presiding over the meeting was Mr. E.L. Bariche, while Mr. L.D. Peterkin and Professor L.J.A. Mercier acted as judges...
...proposals for the improvement of the tutorial system, with particular reference to the department of English, have been suggested by L. D. Peterkin, tutor in that department. Mr. Peterkin, in brief, suggests that the tutorial department be made into an avenue of advancement into the professorial ranks or that a system of graded appointments be introduced, so that, as Mr. Peterkin suggests the individual tutors may be classed as prohationary, junior and senior...
...plan of honors in English recently approved by the Faculty," writes Mr. Peterkin, discussing this question in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin seems likely to have interesting developments. Not only will it vitally affect the subjects of undergaduate and graduate study within Harvard itself, but owning to the position which Havard occupies in the scholastic world, it is more than probable that ultimately it will have a profound and far-reaching influence on the whole attitude of American education. It is not the purpose of this article to discuss the plan in detail, but simply the general principle...