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...last week assembled a small group of excited British savants. It was a momentous occasion, they felt: they were to unseal the first of a great collection of historical gramophone cylinders, recorded years ago for the benefit of posterity. They were to hear first the voice of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate of England, on the 50th anniversary of its recording, in a reading of his own works...
...time perhaps a bit more serious in his studies--if we may accept the yearning for a Phi Bta Kappa key as genuine--other votes would indicate that he has changed little. We refer to his attitude, of all things, toward poetry. In 1921 his favorite poets were Kipling, Tennyson and Browning; in 1931 they are Browning, Kipling and Tennyson. Ten years ago he voted "If" his favorite poem, followed by Gray's "Elegy"; today he does the same. This may have been all right in 1921, but it is pretty bad for a sophisticated night-clubber whose favorite amusement...
...Vagabond has noticed an alarming symptom cropping out every now and again amongst the students. It is particularly bad at this time of year. He knows the old gag of Tennyson's about "In the Spring" and all the awful things that happen then, but did not the same old rhymster say that there was no joy but calm. He did. And the two are not compatible. The Vagabond has always been a batchelor for woman would restrict the carefree, wandering life such as his. He has patiently borne with the feministic foibles of his followings for he understands that...
...bull was suggested to Tobaccoman Green by the bull's neck on the seal of Durham, England, trade-mark of Coleman's mustard. Three smokers of Bull Durham were James Russell Lowell, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Lord Tennyson...
Lionel Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson, grandson of the late great poet, arrived in Manhattan for a brief visit. He had heard aboard ship that Lady Astor made a speech in the House of Commons charging that the English cricket team was recently defeated by the Australian team because the English team had drunk too much. Lord Tennyson was a member of the English team. He cried to newshawks: "This was false. . . . The members of our team when in training do not drink, or if they drink, it is comparatively little. . . . What does Lady Astor know about cricket...