Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholar, Ghost Man James knows how to link antiquity and horror: many of his spooks are harmlessly buried till a blundering antiquarian stirs them up. If the meddler survives, his invariable rule thereafter is to let sleeping ghosts lie. James sets the scenes of his stories with cunning realism, hearty plausibility; he never needs Bohemia or Walpurgis Night. Imperceptibly the shades thicken; something (it might be a rat) scuffles in a corner; something (it might be the wind) puffs out the curtains; and then...
...Author. Montague Rhodes ("Monty") James, Provost of Eton (TIME, June 29), famed Old & New Testament scholar (author of The Apocryphal New Testament, Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament, Old Testament Legends) says his ghost stories are based on neither his own nor others' experience. They were suggested mostly by reading, by places; once by a dream. If you were to ask him whether he believes in ghosts he would answer: "I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me." He thinks he will probably write no more ghost sto ries. These he made up mostly...
...greater than a dean's living.) His students admire his strong face and square shoulders (he played football at Marlborough). His fine, sonorous voice commands their rapt attention at every Leaving Address. Like most British schoolmen, Head Beak Alington is a versatile but chiefly intramural scholar. England knows well his "jolly good remarks" on all subjects. Samples: "I believe our taste in some matters is not as good as ihat of other nations, for example our homes, which are exceedingly ugly. . . . No class of Englishmen have a monopoly on any virtue or vice. . . . Women are frauds because they pretend...
...particular, must be credited to Exeter's headmaster: Lewis Perry, brother of Bliss Perry, famed former Harvard English professor and onetime Editor of the Atlantic Monthly. After teaching at Lawrenceville School and at Williams, his alma mater (class of 1898), he came to Exeter in 1914. No scholar, he does not teach at Exeter, spends much time away from school spreading Exter's fame and obtaining endowments...
...their studies. The net result was most gratifying. Activity was everywhere. Bottles were crashing into the street, "Ten Cents a Dance" was being sung from a room in Randolph in a voice which betokened the existence of something more substantial than the mere joy of existence, while one lone scholar was dangling a Phi Beta Kappa key out of the window while the read his notes on Semitic one squared hf. The Vagabond's head began to whirl. Such industry was not known in his days at college. He wondered what he should advice for those who were affected...