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...backs on the Harvard squad of 19 is as follows: R. H. Bates '33, A. G. Draper '32, G. P. Earling '34, J. B. Hyman '34, J. N. Legrange 2G, J. M. Ossorio '33, G. E. Ray '32, P. M. Sheldon ocC, M. M. Slack '32, and Babington Smith G. The forwards are: M. B. Graves '32, F. A. Gilbert '34, R. W. Moore '33, J. H. Rowell '31, C. Riley gr.E.S., H. P. Schwyzer '34. J. D. Vail '32, S. M. Wheeler '32, and R. E. White...
...those books' which people say they must read some time, and never read at all." No poet, Newman wrote (while still an Anglican) one of the most famed of English hymns, "Lead, Kindly Light." His prose was praised by Purist Walter Pater. One of his sermons Thomas Babington Macaulay knew by heart, and George Eliot could not quote it without tears...
Famous men guided the Review on its iconoclastic career. Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, once the magazine's star reviewer, was known as "chief executioner." Essayist William Hazlitt, Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, Prophet Thomas Carlyle, Novelist Walter Scott were contributors...
Died. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 90, famed British statesman and historian (Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, The American Revolution), onetime member of the Gladstone Cabinet, nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay; after a critical illness, in Northumberland, England...
Little more than 338 years after the execution of Mary Queen of Scots** at Fotheringhay Castle, Ainsworth Mitchell, Home Office criminologist, came to the conclusion that the letters written to Babington expressing approval of a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth were not written by Mary but by her secretary and betrayer, William Maitland of Lethington...