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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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...Excerpt: Welcome to the fifth volume of Best of Four. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you. The purpose of Best of Four is to bring the best writing produced in English 004 each fall semester to the widest a...

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...lty Editors Jim Manis & Carol Ann Ellis Student Editor Patty Haggerty Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylv... ...l Ann Ellis Student Editor Patty Haggerty Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania State University is an ... ...he Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Best of Four: Student Voices is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... opportunity university. Best of Four: Student Voices is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. All the student essays contained herein... ...usly walks into the bustling Wilkes Barre Scranton airport. He is an older man who has trouble breathing because of the emphysema that is slowly takin... ...ities do give the band a impressive image but do not necessarily show real musical talent. T ony Phillips, a VH1 correspondent, writes on their self-t... ...k a tooth.” He is saying that the album is “bubble-gum, teenaged girl” pop music at it’s worst. It seems like the band wants to show off their clothes... ... now, every damn song the Beatles ever wrote had been about love. ‘Nowhere Man’ broke them out of that.” Lennon and McCartney wrote the majority of th... ...s for your courses before the first day of classes. As you walked down the isles, you looked for the placards identifying the courses and section numb...

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...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

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