he [Hayes McNeill] said, who wanted her students to dissect and understand the intricacies of literature."There was a lot of give-and-take in her class, which was fairly unusual in those days," he said.
Whether students were reading Whitman, Dickinson or T.S. Eliot, Phillips subjected literature to a simple test: What did it mean in real life, and was it valid? he said.
from Winston-Salem Journal: Trailblazer for women at Wake Forest dies
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