Word: chesterton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dome of Mister Chesterton...
There is a decided tint of Pan drawn by Gilbert K. Chesterton in an interview which the visiting lecturer granted the Yale News. Mr. Chesterton feels that the youth of America matures too quickly. He bemoans the fact that when an undergraduate is about to leave college he has experienced almost everything. In contrast the closer ties between the authorities and the students, the "domestic college life", of English universities Hends to keep the undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge young...
...past six weeks the faculty of the University of Notre Dame, famed for football, has been temporarily increased by one member: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, paradoxologist, author (The Flying...
...Thursday), prime defender of the faith (Catholic Essays, St. Francis of Assisi). Author Chesterton gave a series of lectures on Victorian literature and history. Last week, when it was time to pack up and leave South Bend, Ind., he became effusively grateful at the recognition with which the institution recognized his labors: an honorary LL. D., given by the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, president, at a special convocation of the faculty...
...used to receiving kudos (he has one LL. D. from the University of Edinburgh), Lecturer Chesterton accepted the honor with the following words: "Gratitude is the only thing worth expressing on an occasion of this kind, but it is one of the ironies of human nature that grati tude can never be fully and completely expressed in words. My sense of unworthiness is so acute that I cannot describe...