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Foreigners are especially open to these dangers. One cannot blame the Italian who chose "cellar-door" as the most melodious word in our language; Tennyson's choice for the same distinction unfortunately is not admitted to polite company. Even men of the same tongue are apt to got into difficulties, as Americans in England have discovered with such words as "bloody" and others that appear equally innocent. Lord Robert Cecil, when he was being entertained in a Boston club, meant only courteous approval when he remarked "What a homely room you have here!" and he found it difficult to understand...
...choose their idols. One palladium of morality recently elected as the greatest man of all time our friend and counsellor, Thomas Edison. Of greater Harvard interest are his runners-up; Roosevelt, Shakespeare, and Longfellow. After them in the order named, come the others of the first ten: King Alfred, Tennyson, Hoover, Dickens, Lloyd George, and Andrew D. Volstead. A notable collection truly! But where are Lincoln, Washington, Napoleon, Harding, and a few others? No matter, all deficiences are made up by the two Harvard...
...Balaams to Queen Gertrude. Laud Joyce-Burge ate at Mendel's. Law the food they Pilon Rude. Happiness implies the perfect functioning of the soul, the Hundred Years' Decline and Fall of Burbank Gibbon's Holy Roman Empire, not an Empire, Holy nor yet Roman. Diminishing returns, the Tennyson, all Scop DeFoeman. Electra Dryden is the very Kittredge form of oathing upon the Tennis Court. The Double Standard Brann of Clothing is Washington down in the Poe, by Nausicaa. The Maid whose Tragedy emptor caveat a Single Tax on Trade. Plato McMasters Menckenese, out-Donne by Shibboleth, Buncombe...
There is now on exhibition in the Widener Memorial Room of the Library a remarkable collection of the works of Tennyson, comprising both original manuscripts and printed copies...
Among the most interesting is a book of "Lyrical Poems", which is the first volume that has Tennyson's name on the title page. There is in addition a presentation copy of "The Princess" and one of "The Holy Grail and Other Poems", containing a page in the author's own hand-writing. A privately printed copy of "Becket" as Sir Henry Irving adapted it for acting is also on exhibition...