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...College in 1931, took his master's at Iowa City and in 1932 won the annual prize of the Yale Series of Younger Poets with his first book of poems, Worn Earth. Later he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, tended wicket and pulled an oar for Merton College, returned to Iowa in 1937 to start shaping poets...
District Court Judge Sweeney, who presided at yesterday's hearing, accepted the testimony of Dr. Henry Merton Baker, and declared that Steyskal is paranoic...
...Court will hear a report from Dr. Henry Merton Baker on the mental condition of Steyskal. According to Federal prosecutor Gail Mahoney, Baker will testify that Steyskal should not stand trial, being unable to understand the nature of the charges against him or assist in preparing his defense...
...nation's literary founding fathers what brother Carl did for Benjamin Franklin. Perhaps Mark Van Doren's most lasting achievement has been fashioned in the classrooms of Columbia; he ranks among the great U.S. teachers. One former student, Trappist Father Thomas (The Seven Storey Mountain) Merton, wrote of him: "His classes were literally 'education'-they brought things out of you, they made your mind produce its own explicit ideas...
...score of nascent Prime Ministers have strolled its tranquil two acres. Poets from Sir Philip (Arcadia) Sidney to W. H. (The Age of Anxiety) Auden first met their muse in the hallowed grassiness spread between Christ Church and Merton College and the crew-splashed "Isis" that is the River Thames. To Christ Church dons the explanation for it all was maddeningly simple: Minister Sandys was an Oxonian, yes, but a Magdalen man! The idea was to steer through the meadow the High Street traffic that now thunders past Sandys' old college over Magdalen Bridge. This, of course, delighted Magdalen...