Foerster, Norman, 1887-1972
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Foerster was professor of English at the University of North Carolina, professor of English and director of the School of Letters at the University of Iowa, prominent New Humanist, and author of books on American literature and higher education; d. 1972.
Author and editor. Foerster was also a professor and a proponent of the New Humanist movement.
Norman Foerster was an author and an editor.
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FOERSTER, NORMAN, 1887-present
A.B. Harvard: 1910; A.M., Univ. of Wisconsin: 1912; Litt.D., U. of South: 1931.
University professor and instigator of New Humanist movement in American criticism. As its chief spokesman, he edited its manifesto Humanism and America (1930). Instructor in English, U. of Wis., 1911-14; assoc prof. English, U. of North Carolina, 1914-19, prof., 1919-30; dir. School of Letters and prof. English, U. of Ia., 1930-44; visiting prof. English, Duke University, 1948-9. Author of Outlines and Summaries, Sentences and Thinking, Nature in American Literature, American Criticism, The American Scholar, Towards Standards, The American State University, The Future of the Liberal College, The Humanities and the Common Man. Editor of Essays for College Men, Selected Literary Essays from James Russell Lowell, Chief American Prose Writers, American Ideals, English poetry of the 19th century, American Poetry and Prose, Humanism and America, and American Critical Essays.
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Adams, R. P
Allen, Francis Henry, 1866-
Baker, Joseph E
Ball, John
Beach, Joseph Warren, 1880-1957
Bill, Earl Gordon, 1884-
Bowling, Lawrence
Bradford, Gamaliel, 1863-1932
Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963
Brown, Margaret
Bush, Douglas, 1896-
Campbell, Oscar James, 1879-1970
Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
Chadsey, C. P
Chalmers, Gordon K
Chapman, Warren
Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1887-
Coffey, Hubert Stanley
College teachers
Conrath, John
Coyle, William
Crane, Ronald Salmon, 1886-
Curriculum change
Davies, Graham R
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
Elliot, George Roy, 1883-1963
Elliot, William Foster
Elton, Oliver, 1861-1945
English teachers
Falk, Robert
Ferrar and Rinehart, Inc
Foerster, Donald
Foerster, Norman, 1887-
Gauss, Christian Frederick, 1878-1951
Gohdes, Clarence Louis Frank, 1901-
Goldberg, Maxwell Henry, 1907-
Goodell, Charles E., Mrs
Greene, Theodore M
Gu erard, Albert L eon, 1880-1959
Guttman, Allen
Hart, James David, 1911-
Havens, Raymond Dexter, 1880-
Hicks, Philip M
Houghton Mifflin Company
Howarth, Herbert
Howe, W. D
Hubbell, Jay Broadus, 1885-
Humanism
Jaeger, Wernes Wilhelm, 1888-1961
Jessup, Walter Albert, 1877-
Jones, Harry Stuart Veddes, 1878-
Kelly, Robert, 1935-
Kilpatrick, William Heard, 1871-1965
Kirby, Thomas A
Lambert, John S
Livingstone, Richard Winn, Sir, 1880-1960
Long, Percy Waldron, 1876-
L udeke, H
Macmillan Company
Mc Grath, Earl James, 1902-
McNeill, Louise
Meiklejohn, Alexander, 1872-1964
Moore, C. A
More, Paul Elmer, 1864-1937
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957
Parkman, Francis
Quinn, Arhtur Hobson, 1875-1960
Rafton, Harold R
Ramsay, Robert L
Reilly, Robert James, 1925-
Robinson, Frederick
Rulard, Richard, 1932-
Ryan, Alfred S
Sandeen, Ernest Emanual, 1908-
Schneider, W. B
Seldes, Gilbert Vivian, 1893-
Shapiro, Karl Jay, 1913-
Slote, Bernice
Smith, D. Michel
Spilles, Robert Ernest, 1896-
Spring, Samuel, 1746-1819
Stevens, David H., 1860-
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955
Stiles, Lindley Joseph, 1913-
Stokowska, Evangeline
Stroud, J. B
Stung, Arthur, N
Su, Wei
University of Iowa
Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950
Wellek, Ren e
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