Word: natale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. This volume is a study of the post-natal creation of a human personality. Old Mr. Cane looked like what he ostensibly was- a suburban grocer. Beneath the white apron and the shy, dull face, he had made of his intelligence a realm of power and beauty, impervious to human contempt. His neighbors could not touch the essential power that was in him and which he passed on to his daughter...
From Trinity College, Oxford, comes John Bird, whose father was head of the Natal Civil Service. He prepared for college at Clongones Wood in Ireland, and will take courses in philosophy as well as continuing his interest in literature, playwriting, and newspaper work. At Oxford he was a member of numerous literary societies and was a track "Blue", winning the hundred-yard race against Cambridge. He was reading "Greats" at the university, which corresponds in general with taking honors at American universities...