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Faculty sponsors named at this time for the Douglas Club are: Bart J. Bok, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy and associate director of the College Observatory: John A. Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition; and Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology and curator of the Geological Museum...
Actually, Pastor Wyngate was nervous as he began his sermon. In the rear of the church sat his older brother Ramsey, and Ramsey was everything that Bart was not: good-looking, self-confident and a bully at heart. Ramsey had turned the head of Bart's wife, Louise, before they were married. What would happen, Bart wondered, now that his brother had turned up again...
Anyone but Pastor Bart could have guessed. And Novelist O'Hara fills his bitter cup to overflowing. Bart came to learn that his wife had not only been unfaithful to him with brother Ramsey, but with a long list of casual characters as well. Bart Wyngate had a nervous breakdown...
...novel ends with a rejuvenated Bart, still strong in faith but humbled by his troubles and aware of human complexities and frailties he had never understood before. He goes back to Louise, ready to start life over again-though how her nymphomania is to be checked is never made quite clear...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, John A. Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, and Bart J. Bok, Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, were listed as "original sponsors" for the new state group. It will attempt to "coordinate tremendous spontaneous support" for Douglas nomination, according to interim secretary Allan N. M. Sidd of Roxbury...