Years later, after Strunk had passed away, E.B. Tenney revised the manuscript and re-published the guide for wider distribution as The Elements and Practice of Composition. In 1918, Strunk published The Elements of Style, but originally only intended it to be used by his Cornell students, who nicknamed it "the little book." In 1935, Strunk and Edward A. There, Strunk met and became friends with a young aspiring writer, Elwyn Brooks ("E.B.") White. Strunk joined a literary group called the Manuscript Club which held Saturday night meetings to discuss writing and literature. In 1922 he published English Metres, a study of poetic metrical form, and began writing he critical editions of various classical works. Strunk began his academic career teaching mathematics at Rose Polytechnical Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana from 1890-91, then returned to Cornell and taught English there for 46 years. He then attended the Sorbonne and the Collège de France from 1898-99 where he studied morphology and philology. Strunk excelled in school, eventually earning a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati and a PhD at Cornell University. (1869-1946) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the eldest of William and Ella Garretson Strunk's four children.
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