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They could choose either Caecilius Day Lewis ("e Collegio Wadhami") or Clive S. Lewis ("socius Collegii Beatae Mariae Magda'enae"). Of England's two distinguished, unrelated Lewises, they picked Cecil (C. Day Lewis, the poet) over Clive (C. S. Lewis, the Anglican theologian, author of the Screwtape Letters), 194 votes to 173. Neither candidate seemed to be pining for office. C. S. Lewis (TIME Cover, Sept. 8, 1947) was off on a long hike; C. Day Lewis was having a drink in his London flat...
...early as 1773 we find "Johannes Vardill, A. M., Socius," appointed professor of natural laws. In 1775 he was made professor of history and languages. Undoubtedly both appointments represented the revival of the old English connection between law, history and classics. As the Jus Naturalis, then taught in European universities, was but the continuity of Roman ideas of philosophical jurisprudence, so history was regarded. primarily, as the history of Greece and Rome, and as a mere supplement to classical culture...
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