Word: lampson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
William Lyon Phelps, famed Lampson Professor of English at Yale University: "In Scribner's for May I committed a pun. Wrote I: 'Well, the turtle has his merits; and it is on record that he won a race with a more gifted animal. I myself doubt it; at all events, I am certain that, whoever won the race, it was won by a hair...
William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor of English at Yale University : "In Scribner's for April I wrote: 'My present Irish setter, Rufus H. Phelps, is ... the most literary dog I have ever known. He has been stroked by W. B. Yeats, patted by Hugh Walpole, petted by G. K. Chesterton, caressed by Joseph Conrad, and kissed by John Galsworthy...
...decorated with bachelor's buttons (lychius diorca), love lies bleeding (amaranthus caudatus), and love in a mist (nigerra danascena), served by celibate servants, attended by 38 bachelors, provided a unique scene in the House of Commons restaurant. There were to have been 39, but one (Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson) "succumbed" the evening previous and became betrothed. " Shame kept him absent...
Professor William Lyon Phelps, G. '91, Lampson Professor of English Literature at Yale University, will speak this evening on "A Literary Journey Through England" before the Graduate School Society in the Peabody Room of the Phillips Brooks House at 7.30 o'clock. Professor Phelps will point out places in England of literary interest which he has visited and deems worthy of visiting. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...Lampson has announced a literary competition open to members of the Freshman, Sophomore and Junior Classes. The competition will start tonight with a meeting of all candidates in the Lampoon Building at 7 o'clock in order to explain the work that the men will be expected...