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...Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship, traditionally given to the first scholar of the Senior Class. Ackerman entered from Coeur d'Alene High School, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He will receive the degree summa cum laude in geology. He had a straight A record throughout college. He has held the Jacob Wendell Scholarship and the Palfrey Exhibition. He was on the University Fencing Team and has taken part in debating. The fellowship will enable him to travel abroad for a year...
After establishing this sense of the timelessness of beginnings, Author Mann starts his story of Joseph in the middle of things. Yaakow ben Yitzchak (Jacob) and his tribe are encamped near the town of Hebron. Jacob, worried by the absence of his favorite son. Joseph, finds him sitting in the moonlight by the side of a well. Their conversation rouses Jacob's ready memories, which the tale follows back to their beginning: his cheating his elder brother Esau out of their father Isaac's blessing; his flight from Esau's wrath to Laban...
...story, but he expands its abbreviated prehistory into an appearance of the present, concentrates its bald chronicle of events into a human reality. No strict-interpretationist of the Scriptures, he does not hesitate to contradict or supplement the original account in matters of minor fact. Thus he says that Jacob's only daughter Dinah was older, not younger, than her brothers Issachar and Zebulun; suggests that Isaac was well aware that he was blessing Jacob instead of Esau; asserts that Jacob demonstrably served 25, not 20 years, with Laban; supplies Rachel's age at her death...
...that is not strictly Biblical but gives, even in translation,† a Biblical effect. The book ends with the death of Rachel, just after the birth of Benjamin. Her last words: " 'Now all burdens have been taken from me, childbearing, life-bearing, and in it is the night. Jacob, my husband, forgive me that I was unfruitful and brought thee but two sons, but yet two, Jehosiph, the blessed, and the little one, the son of death. And ah, I am sore to go from them. And from thee too, Jacob, I am sore to part, for we were...
...fond of his dog Bashan that he wrote a biography of him (A Man-and His Dog, 1919). A slow worker, it took him two and a half years to write Budden-brooks, twelve years for The Magic Mountain, some ten years for the first part of Jacob and His Brothers. Because he is mildly superstitious, the round numbers that have partitioned his life please his "sense of mathematical clarity." "It was midday when I came into the world; my 50 years lay in the middle of the decades, and in the middle of a decade, halfway through...