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).

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Clerical Error

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 Archbishop Justin Welby Among the steadying qualities of Anglicanism, a certain reliable boringness has always rated high on ...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

The New Provost

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Since I will not long be able to disguise the genre of of this post, the parental brag, I must at the very least make a few preli...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Shield the Joyous

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            Egged on:  John Henry Fleming and Ruby Fleming in hot pursuit                      The giant Ea...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Breakfast of Champions

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Frank Norris             Now and again in a spare moment I will take from a shelf one of my beautiful volumes of the Library of...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Historical Perspective

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I remember clearly why, quite a long time ago now, I determined that Wednesday would be my regular blog day.  I thought of it as the appr...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

San la Muerte

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I spent many years studying the fascinating figure of Saint Francis Assisi and his impact on the religious life of the later Middle...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Nel mezzo del campaign trail

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Yesterday was so-called Super Tuesday.   As the readership of this blog is international, I might explain that the portentous...
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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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