Word: bodleian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lincoln College, Oxford, and is the author of many treatises on religion. He was winner of the Arnold essay prize in 1902 and curate of Lumley, Durham, in 1895, and of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1897 to 1904. He was also a cataloguer of Greek manuscripts in the Bodleian Library in 1903-04. Professor Lake went to Leyden University...
Among these are a copy made from the Tanner Manuscript of the Bodleian Library, probably the one from which Ferrar printed the original text in 1633, a copy made from the one in Williams Library, Gordon Square, London, which probably dates back to 1629, a copy from the Rawlinson Manuscript of the Bodleian Library, dating 1714, a note-book used by Professor Palmer in the preparation of his own edition, and various London editions of George Herbert's poems dating 1799, 1806, 1835, 1836, 1846, 1853, 1854, 1859, 1863, 1869, 1876, 1883, 1885, 1899 and 1904, and American editions...
...description of the Bodleian is marred by inaccuracy and exaggeration, and still more by a tone which one hopes is not characteristic of what the writer ambiguously calls "the American equivalent of a scholar and a gentleman." The account of the Oxford Union, on the other hand, is full of valuable suggestion, for imitation. There is no more promising remedy for our much bemoaned slackness of intellectual interest and ambition in the College than the development of amateur debating. But this, too, we kill with professionalism, and what should be an exhilarating exercise becomes a drudgery and a burden...