Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students) has yet to fill the order, but under Chancellor Logan Wilson it has come closer than at any time in its 77 years. Now Wilson, 53, is turning over the rest of the job to one of the liveliest experimenters in U.S. education, new Chancellor-elect Harry Huntt Ransom...
...Wilson also carefully groomed a daringly different successor, Vice President Harry Ransom, who became president last fall when Wilson moved up to chancellor. Says one admiring facultyman of Ransom, who now becomes chancellor: "He doesn't just walk out on a limb for you. He climbs out on a twig, and jumps up and down on the leaf...
...genuine Texas intellectual with "a benign poker face," Galveston-born Chancellor Ransom, 52, was educated at Tennessee's University of the South and at Yale, began teaching English at Texas in 1935, turned to administration in 1951. Among other achievements, Bibliophile Ransom has made the university one of the country's richest repositories of rare manuscripts. Since 1957 Texas has picked up more than 100 private libraries and collections, including original manuscripts by famed modern authors, from James Joyce to Ernest Hemingway, from e. e. cummings to A. A. Milne...
...Damned Good Students." Ransom nursed the university press, started a lecture series that lures such literary lights as W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. He also started the Texas Quarterly, which appears next month with an all-English issue featuring such authors as Henry Green and Angus Wilson, a cover by Punch Cartoonist Rowland Emmett. (An all-Texas issue is in the works...
Since the middle of the 17th century, this illustrated Latin manuscript of the four Gospels has lain in the library. It is surrounded by a Caesar's ransom of rare editions-a first edition of Dante's Inferno, Caxton's Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, a first folio of Shakespeare, one of the three known copies of the wordbook of Handel's Messiah-but it is the most valued. Last week, insured for $3,000,000, the Book of Kells was being readied for exhibition in London's Royal Academy-the first time...