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English Professor Featured Speaker at Jenkins Town Lyceum
Professor James A. Butler, English, was the featured speaker on May 18 at the semi-annual meeting of the Jenkins Town Lyceum, an adult educational, cultural, and charitable organization founded in 1838.

Dr. Butler's lecture, "Seeking the Cure: Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's Prescription for Philadelphia's Writers and Artists," was on Thomas Eakins, Walt Whitman, and Owen Wister.