Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BOOKS Best Reading EDWARD LEAR, THE LIFE OF A WANDERER, by Vivien Noakes. In this excellent biography, the Victorian painter, poet, fantasist, and author of A Book of Nonsense is seen as a kindly, gifted man who courageously tried to stay cheerful despite an astonishing array of diseases and afflictions...
While only suburban police remained in the building, Edward T. Wilcox secretary to the Gen Ed Committee, walked through University Hall. He said afterwards that "It was pretty messy, but there was no vandalism...
...letter dated March 26 to Arthur MacEwan, head sectionman for the course, Edward T. Wilcox, director of the program of General Education, wrote that "the CEP felt that the Faculty must maintain its responsibility for the certification of the A.B. degree and that some measure of comparative performance is necessary in order to make this certification possible." The letter also says that "academic performance which is not measured against a uniform standard can quickly deteriorate to a system of personal patronage...
...EDWARD LEAR, THE LIFE OF A WANDERER by Vivien Noakes. 359 pages. Houghton Miffllin...
...herself once had a drawing master who wrote The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. Subsidized as they were with honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five-pound note, the owl and the pussycat went on to achieve that monumental Victorian ideal, a happy marriage. Their creator, Edward Lear, however, never wed, though he sometimes used to talk sentimentally about marriage as "making a nest in the olive trees." It is not recorded whether the little Queen gave so much as a fiver to her instructor...