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Barry Wood was the Crimson's All-American Dean's List scholar athlete of yesteryear and a triple threat at that. Another famed Harvard character is "Copey" Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus. Annually he attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he...
The marble stairway which winds around a long chandelier chain goes up to the Keats Memorial Room, and to a long corridor occupied by collections of Kipling, Lafcadio Hearn, and other modern authors. In the other direction, the stairs wind down to the Department of Graphic Arts, the seminar room...
Of balladry, Kipling was an unsurpassable modern master. Eliot points out "his singleness of intention in attempting to convey no more to the simple minded than can be taken in on one reading or hearing," points out further his virtuosity at carrying out and varying this intention: "There is no...
Inscrutable Pattern. Kipling, says Eliot, "is one of the most inscrutable of authors." But there is a pattern in his verse, "a unity of a very complicated kind." For the tracing of it, his verse and his prose must be studied together. So must his biography. An Englishman born in...
Most important in Kipling's later stories and poems is Kipling's "vision of the people of the soil. It is not a Christian vision, but it is at least a pagan vision-a contradiction of the materialistic view: it is the insight into a harmony with nature...