Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school has had one or two losses in the last few years, of men of purely literary interests. As a result there are people who feel that there is a danger that the emphasis may fall in the near future upon the scholarship of literature, and upon bibliography. There is a special need at the moment for a man with a wide interest for literature, and Professor Lowes will fit this need admirably...
...Oxford we have only one professor of modern English literature in the entire university," continued Professor Garrod, "so that Professor Lowes will in reality be an additional lecturer in English literature. He will, however, be the only outstanding teacher of the moment whose particular interest is in the Romantic movement...
...individual star of the visiting squad is "Cannonball" Clyde Crabtree, ambidextrous triple threat par excellence. He will be watched with a great deal of interest and concern by the Harvard board of strategy for several hours Saturday afternoon. Another Dixie menace is Royce Goodbread, 200-pound halfback whose springtime specialty is running the 100-yard dash in a trifle under 10 seconds flat. Rumor has him confined to crutches now but he is making the trip to Cambridge and don't be surprised if he hobbies out on to the field Saturday and discards his crutches in a moment...
Among the first editions of several of William Makespeace Thackeray's works is a copy of "The History of Henry Esmond. Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majest Queen Anne, Written by Himself." This is of particular interest because it is the presentation copy; inscribed in Thackeray's handwriting: "Miss Brote, with W. M. Thackeray's grateful regards. October...
...very definite impression not only as a scholar but as a personality. His most not able achievements, of course, have been in his research. But both in his books and o the lecturing platform he has demonstrated that if he digs deep for erudition he brings out the interest of his subject without the dust that has settled on his remote sources...