Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche

"Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche" is the personal web log of John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of English and Comparative Literature emeritus at Princeton University. It continues in its title and its spirit his one-time newspaper column in The Daily Princetonian. As a general rule a new post is mounted every Wednesday morning (EST).

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Paris

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             I want to write about Paris because I must, but in order to keep things real and to avoid some of the sentimental excesse...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Campus Unrest

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As I write this I am reading the latest reports of “unrest” on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia, where the articula...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Notre Dame

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The Saint Joseph River, which flows laconically for a couple of hundred miles in a generally western direction through parts of ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Augustinian Fantasy Fulfilled

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When I was a kid there were certain ads in the popular press and on matchbooks that fed my fantasies and, no doubt, the fantasies...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Lady Alice and the Then and There

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When I was young it was common to hear or read about two broad classes of people: introverts and extroverts.   My family and mo...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Monostory

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                                                         A pillar of society in a society of pillars Much of my sch...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

The Red Orchestra, Repainted

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There recently arrived in the mail a heavy book package.   The arrival of a book is no rare event in this household, but I was none...
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John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of Literature emeritus at Princeton University, retired after a long teaching career in 2006. He and his wife Joan continue to live in Princeton. The Flemings have three adult children, six delightful grandchildren, and lives that mysteriously continue to be busy.He can be reached at jfleming@princeton.edu.
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