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 12, 2017

Ascent of Mont Ventoux

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Mont Ventoux Mont Ventoux, nicknamed the “Giant of Provence,” is a big mountain in a part of the south of France where it seems...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Nice Guy Finishes First

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Jim Magnuson The years bridging the Sixties and the Seventies, which were turbulent ones on many American college campuses, we...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Voices of the Page

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Every stage of life brings new pleasures along with its new challenges, even senectitude, which on the whole is more on the chall...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Strings That Bind

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The Takacs Quartet I am perhaps too taken with accidental cultural congruences, and too eager to impose a nonexistent meani...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Purgatory Postponed

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            Yesterday, before the Northeast Corridor shut down quailing in anticipation of a major blizzard, I was supposed to ...
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Scientia et Virtus

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  Most people with some professional connection to American higher education probably know something about Middlebury, one of t...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Improving the Proofing

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I see that this is the 399 th in a series of weekly blog essays that began on June 13, 2009.   Time sure flies when you’re having ...
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John V. Fleming
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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