Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, was a chilly 18th Century aristocrat, diplomat and wit, whose famous letters to his son, designed to make the lad a blue chip off the old block, immortalized their author instead. Reared in the Age of Reason, Chesterfield also became its perfect symbol: a man who saw his time steadily, but never saw through...
...Chesterfield's emotional budget, sentiment was a luxury, style a necessity. "Do everything," the earl instructed a godson, "in minuet-time; speak, think, and move always in that measure." The irony of Chesterfield's own life was that he gracefully missed every other beat. He served George II ably as ambassador to The Hague, and was probably one of the few lord-lieutenants of Ireland whose blarney charmed the Irish. But solid triumphs abroad never netted him more than slim cabinet posts at home, and George II scornfully dubbed the diminutive earl a "dwarf-baboon...
...Godolphin Arabian (sometimes called the Godolphin Barb) was said to have been pulling a water-cart in Paris when he was promoted and sent to England, where he was presented to the Earl of Godolphin. † And He sighed deeply in His spirit and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say unto you, there shall no sign be given unto this generation. earth, denied Christ three times before He was crucified...
...other officers are: Betty Wade 2G, secretary; Earl M. Kulp '52, treasurer; John M. Savage '53, publicity director; Francis A. Harding, Jr. '53, membership director; Thomas W. Pearlman 3L, and John A. Klingel '52, executive committee members...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has announced that Earl C. Ravenal '52, of Providence, Rhode Island, and Eliot House, has been awarded the History and Literature Prize for 1950-51. The award is $50 for the purchase of any kind of book except current fiction...