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Some 20 years before he sat on a sunny riverbank spinning the tale of Alice in Wonderland for the benefit of three entranced little girls, the man who became immortal as Lewis Carroll wrote these lines for his brother and sister (aged seven and five) at a rectory at Croft. During the years that followed, as he grew up to become a clergyman, a teacher and a mathematician, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson kept his alter ego, Carroll, well hidden from disapproving adult eyes. Carroll the storyteller preferred to save his voice for only the very young. In this slim...
...Sheridan, Goldsmith, Wilde, Shaw-they had crossed the sea to pass their lives laughing prosperously at England rather than weeping insolvency for Ireland. In the 1880s, when William Butler Yeats first twanged his lyre, the world was understandably startled; it was almost like finding a Goethe in a peat croft. But for the next 50 years Ireland kept passing out literary surprises, for first-rate writers came along as fast as poteen at a christening: Russell, Synge, Gogarty, O'Casey, Joyce, O'Flaherty. O'Connor, McLaverty. In Part I of 1000 Years of Irish Prose (Part...
...Answers. Two detectives who set out on his trail found that he lived at none of them. But at one they learned that Peakes's parents were at Dover-Fox-croft, Me.: by telephone they finally got his Boston address. At 11 o'clock that night they eased themselves into his furnished room, found the murder pistol, then settled down tensely for his return. Peakes was amiability itself when he walked in. He admitted the killing...
...Inspector will be Albert Pariow '54. Other players are Gregg as Mr. Birling, Sarah K. Levy '54 as Mrs. Birling. Danielle G. Holmgren '55 as their daughter, William White GS as their son, and Robert A. Munro '53 as Gerald Croft...
...been planning on a new lab for game time," Emery L. Chafee, chairman of the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, said yesterday. "Sites behind Pierce and Croft laboratories and next to Jefferson had been considered," he added...