- Anglický jazyk
Nicholson, M: Provincial American, and Other Papers (Classic
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Mr. George Ade has said, speaking of our fresh-water colleges, that Purdue University, his own alma mater, offers everything that Harvard provides except the sound of a as in father. I have been...
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Excerpt from The Provincial American, and Other Papers
Mr. George Ade has said, speaking of our fresh-water colleges, that Purdue University, his own alma mater, offers everything that Harvard provides except the sound of a as in father. I have been told that I speak our lingua rustica only slightly corrupted by urban contacts. Anywhere east of Buffalo I Should be known as a Westerner; I could not disguise myself if I would. I find that I am most comfortable in a town whose population does not exceed a fifth of a million, a place in which men may te linquish their seats in the street car to women without having their motives questioned, and where one calls the stamp-clerk at the post o¿ice by his first name.
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