Word: lads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such utterance, but Alfred Edward Housman is no ordinary professor. British to the bone, classical to the core, in the never-numerous line of English scholar-poets he is the latest and perhaps the last. Thousands of readers know his two thin but unfragile volumes of poetry (A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems), and even Oxford dons have admitted that his place among English poets is already assured...
...foundation of his classical learning at St. John's College, Oxford, then went to London as a Higher Division Clerk in the British Patent Office. After ten years in the Civil Service he became Professor of Latin at London's University College. His first book (A Shropshire Lad, 1896) brought him a reputation, but not the one he was after. While his younger brother Laurence was turning out a stream of second-rate novels and stories, A. E. Housman was making his name feared and respected among scholars as editor of Latin poets. His magnum opus, the editing...
Oxford v. Punch. Also very much in sight at Swarthmore would be Frank Aydelotte, president of the College and key man in Rhodes affairs on the west side of the water. Frank Aydelotte was an early Rhodes Scholar (1905-07). A shy country lad from Sullivan, Ind., he had gone to Indiana University, played football despite the admonitions of his parents and doctor, later coached a crack high school team. At Oxford, he rowed, played rugby. Back in the U. S., he taught English at Indiana University until 1915, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1921. U. S. education...
While the orchestra plays appropriate theme songs Sweeney Todd (R. B. Clement '32) pursues his business of murder while Mrs. Lovett (R. T. Frescoln '34), next-door bakeshop proprietress, manufactures tuppenny pies out of the corpses. Mark Ingestrie (W. McM. Heyl '33) is the sailor lad in love with demure Johanna Oakley (C. J. Fleming '33). It is Mark's pearls which arouse the avarice of the Fleet Street razor wielder and finally bring about his apparent demise via his own unholy chair. The Playgoer cannot assay to conduct his readers through the plot of a Victorian melodrama, but they...
...story concerns the love affairs of a country lad who reaches fame and fortune in Paris as an exclusive hair-dresser...