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, September 7, 2022

Salernes Market

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          Years ago when I was studying the Journals of Christopher Columbus, I found myself rather shocked by the feebleness of his powers ...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Educational Loan Forgiveness

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  I suppose it was to be expected that President Biden’s initiative on some debt forgiveness of educational loans would st...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Passenger Locator Form

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 Nice Airport; 'twould be nice to get there Only as the summer approaches its end do I fully realize how much fun you ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Our Continuing Education

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Poster advertising appearances of LaFolette and Debbs Among the horrors of the past week’s news, the one that really appa...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Bishop Colenso

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John William Colenso (1814-1883) Research projects are sometimes like the long Greyhound bus trips of my adolescence in ...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Dear, dear

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    My last essay had to do with attempts to coerce language to conform to social and political ideas of our fancy.   This...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Linguistic Change by Fiat

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        Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)   “ The dictionary is not the language.   It is a treatise upon the language...
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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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