Reading and Writing
Reading and Writing
Dear Doc Schelling
The original copies of the following letters, written by Ezra Pound to Felix Schelling and other people at Penn over a 20-year period, are in the special-collections department of Van Pelt Library. No attempts have been made to correct Pound's idiosyncratic spelling and grammar.
Moderns in the Quad
Two legendary poets formed friendship at Penn that would change the course of American Poetry.
Not the Alumni Notes
Underachievers, take heart! Alumni news for the rest of us.
A River of Words
How a New Yorker essay helped save a river from destruction -- and one Penn alumnus from a career in law.
Reflections on the Roman World
The curator of a show of Roman glass now at the University Museum tells how the ancient glassworking industry reveals as much about the Romans as their architecture, thirst for conquest, or tendency to murder their emperors.
Letters
Apr 1998: Philos find fault, unanswered questions on eligibility, rewriting letters.
Choosing Community
College houses promise academic support and creative leadership.
Running in Circles?
What gets lost in the rush to achieve.