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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Cather, Willa

Cather, Willa
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
My Antonia: Book 3

Book III - Lena Lingard

At the university in Lincoln, Jim is privileged to have as Latin teacher
and personal friend Gaston Cleric, a brilliant young New England scholar and
poet sent West for his health. Cleric opens new realms of ideas, but Jim still
finds himself vividly recalling the country people he used to know.

Only recently established, the college itself has a young optimistic
spirit. Many of the students are poor farm boys, and the faculty includes
ministers in hard straits and eager youths from graduate schools. Since ...

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