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Unlike the rest of the Faculty whose haughty dignity frosted anyone without at least a full beard and a full professorship, Copey, as he was soon known, became friendly with undergraduates of all sorts. His "open house on Wednesday evening after ten" became the forum of the College where Chaucer...
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell was an empire builder of the Kipling school. All set to enter Oxford at the age of 19, he took a crack at the Army examinations for a lark, finished second out of 700 and wound up as a subaltern in the 13th Hussars in...
Laureate of the Royal Navy is Admiral Ronald Arthur Hopwood, 72, an oldtime gunnery officer who retired in 1919, but still writes for the Fleet. His poem The Laws of the Navy takes precedence among Navy men even over Kipling's If, hangs embellished in most officers' messes...
Last week, Baby Jean's immortality had become just another intimation. The Messenger had other things on his metaphysical mind. The R. F. of M. M. dumped Baby Jean back into her waitress mother's un-Vanderbiltian quarters in a Manhattan rooming house. The Messenger, nattily attired in...
Of course, he knew Louisiana-born George Washington Cable, who was slowly decomposing in New England. William Dean Howells, who was smugly doing the same in New York. He knew also Thomas Bailey Aldrich, who "had very nearly as extensive an appreciation of himself and his gifts as had the...