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Amazed at Fon W. Boardman's list of the ten "most boring" classics to "most people," in TIME, July 17 ... It is unquestionable that Richardson's Pamela, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Goethe's Faust and others in his list may be boring to those in search of thrills . . . [But] bores do not become classics, nor do their works last four centuries...
There have been many lists of the best books-the ten best, the 100 best, etc. What about a list of the ten most boring? Editor Fon W. Boardman Jr. of Pleasures of Publishing, a Columbia University Press trade letter, thought it might be fun to make one. He polled several hundred U.S. librarians, editors, authors, reviewers and schoolteachers, asking them to send him a list of the ten classics that have bored most people most. Last week Boardman announced the results...
...Boardman's readers listed 427 boring classics-including the Old Testament. The consensus was that the most boring author was George Eliot. The author with the most titles listed (17): William Shakespeare...
Chandler Rathfon Post. Post, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, is one of the last survivors of the College's Kittredge-Copeland "Golden Age" faculty. He will close a 45 year teaching career here which he began by instructing in first English, then French, Italian, Greek Romance Language Literature, and finished with Fine Arts...
Appointment of Wilhelm R. W. Koehler as William Dorr Boardman Director of Fine Arts was announced by Provost Buck yesterday...