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When he was teaching about Sam Johnson, Professor Chauncey Tinker seemed a good deal like the great Samuel himself. He was a crisp and courtly figure, far from the "man of most dreadful appearance" Boswell wrote about, but he spoke in coffee-house prose, and like Johnson, he knew how to command attention. For more than 25 years, Chauncey Brewster Tinker's Yale classroom was one of the two or three most popular on campus...
...shall be remembered," Chauncey Tinker once remarked with a wave of his hand, "for my students. These are my jewels." Last week, four years after his retirement from teaching, old (72) Professor Tinker knew just how rich in jewels he was. Thirty-seven of them, who had gone on to become professors themselves, had written a book in his honor and handed it to him at a dinner. Appropriately, the book was a collection of their own scholarly essays on Tinker's Century. The title, affectionately lifted from Tink's old course, was The Age of Johnson (Yale...
...Chauncey Tinker got his first glimpse of Johnson's Age as a Yale undergraduate, class of '99. Before that, he had lived the peripatetic life of a minister's son (Maine to Colorado), and his great ambition was to be a conductor on the Boston & Maine railway. After Yale, he taught one year at Bryn Mawr and fell in love with a student-"a very beautiful girl." She married someone else, and Tinker settled into bachelordom...
Clarence C. Halloway 21, a blind Negro, was struck down by a street car at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Chauncey Street at 8:30 p.m. last night...
...world, Historian Henry Adams thought he was watching the simultaneous decline of civilization at large. A good deal of how he felt he managed to get into The Education of Henry Adams, and more is to be had in the two large volumes of his letters edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. It might seem like mere academic piety to add further evidence. But readers who miss Henry Adams and His Friends will miss: 1) a hitherto unpublished assortment of more than 600 Adams letters, many of them of first interest; 2) the shrill cackling ofxone of the most gifted...