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...many of his poems fail somewhere to embarrass mature readers for the poet's sake. Critic Cyril Connolly has pointed out that in 63 poems Housman uses the word lad-a dubious word even in England-no less than 67 times. Oxford's Professor H. W. Garrod has objected to the "false-pastoral" quality of many of the poems, the frequent excessiveness of their emotions and situations. Poet Conrad Aiken, provoked by the overenthusiasm of an undergraduate, once described Housman as "a male Ella Wheeler Wilcox."† Housman himself appreciated the parody of himself (by Hugh Kingsmill) which...
...other signers of the letter are Gilbert Murray, Regins Professor of Greek, Boars Hill Oxford, Eric Maclagan, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, H. W. Garrod, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and A. M. Hind, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum...
Plain, thick-browed, 47-year-old Miss Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod wears her dark hair in a severe bob. She is a daughter of the late Sir Archibald Garrod, former Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. Rated by famed Scientist Sir Arthur Keith "in the front rank of European archeologists," Miss Garrod unearthed a Stone Age infant's skull in a cave at Gibraltar, last year turned up 50,000-year-old remains of paleolithic man in the Balkans, has spent much of her life tenting on famed excavations in Palestine and Kurdistan. She was director of archeology...
...Miss Garrod prepared to take her place next fall with Cambridge's 73 men professors, moot point was what she would wear to classes. Professors wear academic gowns, but by an unwritten rule no woman has so appeared in the University's halls. Last week the University authorities had not yet unraveled this question, but Miss Garrod gave them a hint by pointing out that a woman holding a titular Cambridge degree may wear a gown on "appropriate occasions...
...previous holders of the Norton Professorship are Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University; Eric Maclagan, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; Heathcote Garrod, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University; Arthur M. Hind, Assistant Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in London; Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik...