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December 5--Reverend Charles E. Raven, Canon of Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool, England...
Charles E. Raven, Canon residentiary of Liverpool Cathedral and sometime Dean of Emmanuel College of Cambridge University, will deliver the William Belden Noble Lectures at the University this year, it was announced last night. The series of six lectures, which are given annually, will begin this year, in all probability, before December 1, and be completed before the Christmas holidays. The general subject of the six addresses has been decided on by Canon Raven as, "The Spirit of God--Creative and Indwelling...
...Raven is in residence at Cambridge, England, this year where he is occupying the post of Hulsean lecturer for the long term at Cambridge University...
Their receptiveness, their spontaneity, must be dull indeed if they fail to be ecstatic over "To Helen," "Ulalume," "Lenore," "Annabel Lee," "The Bells, " "The Haunted Palace," "Israfel" and the crowning glory of "The Raven," or they would not glibly drop such sentences as "two-fifths sheer fudge...
Yale's honor societies are far from unique in nature, but at no U. S. college are inscrutable orders taken more seriously, nor have they such compelling interest for the world-at-large. At the University of Virginia there is the famed Raven, dedicated to the dark memory of Edgar Allan Poe. At Colgate there are the weird Skull and Scroll, and Gorgon's Head. University of California has its Skull and Key and its Golden Bear. Other famed senior societies: Owl and Serpent (Chicago), Iron Cross (Wisconsin), Skull and Snakes (Leland Stanford), Iron Wedge (Minnesota), Quill...