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Fifty years ago, A. E. Housman published, at his own expense, the first edition of A Shropshire Lad. The latest edition, which does homage to that event, is published by the Colby Library in Waterville, Me. Readers who cannot get one of the 500 copies of this Jubilee Edition* will miss: 1) a rare reminder that book designing is an art, not a packaging job; 2) a rare photograph of the poet at about the time he was writing his first volume; 3) a set of notes which should interest any admirer of Housman's poetry...
...chaplains had all been in war heaters and their battlefront experiences lad convinced them that the Church needs renewed warnings: | Organized religion has allowed church members to remain religious illiterates. The trouble probably lies in an indirectivay of teaching with high-sounding theo-ogical terms instead of plain talk, which he chaplains found more effective. Hence-orth, civilian clergymen will have to be )etter trained in modern educational methods...
...liked President Wilson's new system of intimate teaching and hated formal lec tures. ("To do the same thing twice a week was horrible.") He timed his evening "precepts" so that his students could take in the first show at the movies. Many a lad who foregathered in Mr. Mac's smoke-filled apartment with six or seven fellow advisees stayed on till midnight, listening to the talk about poets and poetry - some times, at the meetings of Mr. Mac's Freneau Club, hearing from the poets them selves: Vachel Lindsay, Robert Frost, Amy Lowell...
Newsman's Education. Francis Williams, 42-he looks younger-is a Shropshire lad and a farmer's son, says he was educated "at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School and on the staffs of various newspapers." The first of these was the Bootle Times in Lancashire. When he tried Fleet Street, he couldn't get a job. So he bought a horse and greengrocer's cart, started to tour England, writing free-lance stories. These led eventually to a job on the Sunday Express. A piece he wrote about Sculptor Jacob Epstein caught Beaverbrook...
...thin young major from New York asked if Al Smith was still a political power on the sidewalks of New York. A Texas sergeant asked what "G.I." meant. A lad from Brooklyn wanted to know all about "Dem Bums." U.S. soldiers freed from Jap prison camps had a lot to catch...