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With her students, Miss Cam's intense activity and interest have helped close a wide gap of age and culture. With some, she carries on a book loaning service and often serves tea in her small Chauncey St. apartment. When she lectures she seems to tell her historical story as much for herself as for her intent listeners. Seldom dramatic or humorous, her own quiet enthusiasm carries her talk and one admiring student pronounced what has been a lasting epithet: "Aha," he said, "A female Mcllwain...
...Miss Cam was born in 1885 in a tiny English village near Oxford. One of a large family she was educated at home in the "Old Victorian Tradition," a regime that supplied enough routine for a dozen lives. "I adored reading," she says. "I regarded books as an escape . . . the more unlikely reality the better I liked them." The least like Victorian reality were the medieval romances of Charlotte Young, and these Miss Cam read avidly...
...close of her academic career--for she must retire this June--Helen Cam surveys a scholarly past filled with the sense of her own growth. Almost half a century ago she backed away from humdrum Victorianism into a medieval world. "I was just a regular romantic," she recalls. Today, her historical knowledge permeates her speech and the arguments with which she defends her deeply held political opinions. Although raised in a Conservative household, she joined the Labor party and stumped the countryside making speeches for the candidates--it was her job to hold the crowd until the great man arrived...
...small armory of academic honors. She is a member of both the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Society of America. These honors in someone else might betoken a staid and settled dignity, but in Miss Cam they are landmarks in a life that has kept forever on the move. At nearly seventy, she and her sister jostled across the United States sitting up in a train, to take a bus trip up and down the West Coast--a trip that she had never been able...
...faced with the problem of cooking her own meals in her Cambridge apartment, after a lifetime of eating institutional food, she rose to the occasion and according to a friend "can now jug a rabbit or produce a curry that's first rate." Viewing her own abundant activity, Miss Cam has occasional stirrings of a most Victorian solicitude. "Sometimes," she says, in a high, cultured voice, "Sometimes, I think I'm just a little too cant...