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...such a lapse can be pardoned in a young scholar; even Sellar & Yeatman, in 1066, failed to give sufficient attention to the tactics of Alfred the Cake at Bannockburn...
...that time humanitarians were thoroughly aroused. In Boston, State Senator George Krapf filed a bill ordering the State Conservation Department to "preserve the fish from cruel and wanton consumption." Meanwhile Robert F. Sellar, president of Boston's Animal Rescue League, threatened to send agents to arrest goldfish swallowers if college authorities did not stop it. Said he: "This is not a subject for levity. I hesitate to bring such a matter to court, but we won't sidestep the issue. There have been too many complaints...
...course: E. I. Brainard '35, A. T. Collier '34, B. P. Datson '34, J. H. Dixon '35, W. C. Feinberg '34, J. R. Fetcher '33, J. K. Hart '35, C. L. Jack '35, P. H. Krusa 2E.S., A. M. Nutter '32, E. F. Rogers '34, L. I. Sellar '34, E. E. Stowell '34, R. J. Strauss '32, J. L. Ward '34, George Wightman '34, and N. L. Yood...
...Histories have previously been written with the object of exalting their authors. The object of this history is to console the reader. No other history does this." British Authors Sellar & Yeatman have written, in 1066 And All That, a more than consoling parody of English history, from Caesar's conquest of Britain to the end of all things, when, the U. S. being "clearly top nation . . . History came...
Example of Authors Sellar & Yeatman's consoling style: "Nelson was one of England's most naval officers, and despised weak commands. At one battle when he was told that his Admiral-in-Chief had ordered him to cease fire, he put the telephone under his blind arm and exclaimed in disgust: 'Kiss me, Hardy...