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 16, 2025

Raise Your Hand

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    Some time ago I wrote a little essay about things and signs, res and signa in Latin, in relation to a little book...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Civic Virtue

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  Lorenzo de' Medici, "the Magnificent"   Perhaps my title needs a question mark: Civic Virtue?   Or even ...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

The Mess at Columbia

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              It is in a quasi-apologetic spirit that I return to some subjects only recently touched upon.   Like many ot...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

A Cultural Weekend

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  I am coming off what was a highly satisfying cultural weekend.   Years ago there were two movie theaters in our no longe...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Unamended Speech

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       The written Constitution of the United States is an intricately structured document worked out over a long period o...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Dulce et decorum?

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The proud tower               This has been a week when a kind of unplanned and unexpected serendipity of coherence has em...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Mother Tongue

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  I post this essay on Ash Wednesday animated by a strange feeling more like unease than penitence.   A good deal has been...
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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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