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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...once heard him deny publicly at Dartmouth the retort, "Who would examine me?" when asked why he had not taken the Ph.D. degree. "That would have been nonsense!" he exclaimed, and added humorously, "I don't think I could have passed an examination for that degree." About the Oxfordian who told him that the only man who could answer an obscure question about Shakespeare was the American scholar Kittredge, he was still more emphatic. "That story," he said, "had no connection with me whatever. Something like it was true of my teacher, Professor Child, who was solemnly referred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1941 | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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