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...concentrator in English nears his graduation, that time when Harvard ceases to be a teacher and becomes a dues-collecting unit of freemasonry, he will step out into the world tolerably well-acquainted with Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dryden, Tennyson and other literary worthies. He may even know the encyclopaedic facts concerning the French Romanticists of the gaslit era and the battlefields of the Sturm und Drang may be an open book to him. But it is questionable whether or not he is sufficiently prepared to keep his calm in a world of raucous dust cover blurbs, eclectic modern poetry, and rumbling...
...will not only be cheaper but as much of an advance over old houses as automobiles are over horse-carts. And they need not be stylistically "moderne." Ivy will cling to their walls. Their insides can be decorated, if need be, in the taste of the late Alfred Lord Tennyson...
...lecture, "Acres of Diamonds." Last week Leon Conwell announced he would revive this lecture which tells of a man who roamed the world looking for diamonds he dreamed of, died without knowing that they existed in his own garden. It contains quotations from the Bible, Grant, Garfield, Lee, Rockefeller, Tennyson and a Mr. Bailey. Solemnities abound like these: "He is an enemy to his country who sets Capital against Labor. . . . Even if a rich man's son retains his father's money he cannot know the best things in life. . . . We must know what the world needs first...
...from Sappho to Paul Valery, include many passages from U. S. Poet Walt Whitman but only one from a living English poet, William Henry Davies (nothing from Huxley's late great friend. David Herbert Lawrence). Significant of the pendulum-swing of modern taste are the admiring references to Tennyson and Browning, frequent quotations from them. As an example of unconscious literature Huxley gives the farewell note of a suicide: "No wish to die. One of the best of sports, which they all knew. Not in the wrong, the boys will tell you. This...
...family happened to be, he served his country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia, Germany. In 1929, unable to contain himself any longer, he resigned, joined forces with the "Bloomsbury Group" (John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, the late Lytton Strachey), took to ink. His first books were biographies of Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne, Verlaine. No mere filial pietist, he wrote a biography of his father that might stand as a monument to the "old" diplomacy...