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There was considerable attention given the meet in the press and it was almost entirely in a mood of skeptical humor. But, according to the report a great amount of undergraduate enthusiasm attended the unique battle, from Beowulf to Thomas Hardy in extent. And insofar as this interest holds, Mrs. Putnam's idea is psychologically sound. It only awaits the prestige which age will bring...
...CRIMSON regrets that the point of its editorial of November 22, "Wolf! Wolf! Beowulf!", is invalidated by the fact that due to a change in examination plans candidates for Honors in English may now present themselves with or without a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon. The first plan meets the requirements of a "General" course, "directed to the study of English literature", the second, to a "Special Course", directed "primarily to the study of English language and literature...
Professor Tinker is the best known living authority on Boswell and Johnson. He is the author of several books, notably "Young Boswell," and has translated "Beowulf." In addition he has edited several volumes of English prose and verse in conjunction with Professor A. S. Cook...
...prominent University professor once described the reading or "Beowulf" as an "intellectual luxury" for any man not seeking a doctor's degree in English. To the scholar this poem is more of a pleasant interest than a required task-but one which very few students find time to enjoy. Much the same attitude has often been taken towards the attendance of college chapel. The student finds it hard to make time enough at nine o'clock in the morning for religious exercises, even though he may recognize the benefit to be derived from them. Consequently, he never acquires the habit...
...romance of the sea still lingers, in spite of steam and wireless. Mariners and fictioneers, between them, have kept alive the tradition that such natural monstrosities do exist. From the Hydra down, through Pliny's dragon which the army of Regulus besieged, and the great beast that Beowulf conquered in a battle to the death, famous stories have grown up around "facts" that science denies. The "sea-worm" was a very real object to the northern sailors, and it has flavored all the old literature of the ocean...