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Subject:More on Hodges->_Harbrace_ From:"P.A. Gantt" <pagantt -at- POSTOFFICE -dot- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 22 Jan 1998 23:36:25 -0500
Wow Charles,
Thanks for the UT info!
Figured with a name "Hodges" like in our library
was ours. Always heard it was written by
a UT folk. Nice the guide is named after him now.
Thanks again!
T.
Charles J. Craven wrote:
> Dear Pat,
>
> Yes, what you have is the _Harbrace_College_Handbook_ under its
> present
> name. You're right: it was originally written by John C. Hodges, the
> English professor & department head for whom Hodges Library was named.
> (It
> was in fact royalties from the longtime top-selling Handbook that
> enabled
> Dr. Hodges to give the University a bequest so magnanimous that his
> name
> was memorialized with a new library building.) His name was
> posthumously
> added to his handbook's title to further honor him, I suppose.
>
> I know all this because my mother came to UT as one of the English
> Dept.'s
> first grad. assistants when Dr. Hodges was here and just beginning
> work on
> the first edition. It has been a standard required text for English
> composition students ever since--here, and at many other colleges and
> universities as well.
> Regards,
> Charles Craven
>
> On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, P.A. Gantt wrote:
>
> > "I recently posted a query about a good grammar book. The majority
> of
> > folk suggested the Harbrace College Handbook, 13th ed.
> >
> > I ordered that, but what I received from Harcourt Brace was the
> "Hodges'
> > Harbrace Handbook." Is this in fact the book recommended to me, or
> is
> > it a bold impostor?"
> >
> > Isn't this originally a UT book?
> >
> > Anyone help this techwriting list member with his
> > question.
> >
> > Oh, BTW, for my buddies... note the new sig.
> > Tickled pink!
> >
> > da T.
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P.A. Gantt <mailto:pagantt -at- bigfoot -dot- com>
Electronic Media Design & Support
M.S., The University of Tennessee http://hrd.he.utk.edu/
Instructor, Human Resource Development
Business Computer Applications, HRD 336
Introduction to Computers, HRD 210
