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When the room was inaugurated at Widener in 1916, Scott, Thackeray and Dickens were read for recreation rather than required course work. At that time "smoking, sprawling and note-taking even for pleasure" were forbidden in the Room. But James noted that "whether the move to Lamont or the more intensive study habits have made the difference," today there is a greater need though perhaps less time for light "escape reading...
During that convalescence, Mrs. Williams read to him constantly: "We used up all the children's books, and I had to turn to Scott, Thackeray, Dickens." Tom's grandfather, who knew Milton's Paradise Lost by heart, recited poetry to him. "Grandfather was crazy about Poe. He was interested in the macabre," says Williams...
...Americans are more aware of Oxford, perhaps because Rhodes scholars go there. Few even realize that the reputable university in Cambridge, Mass., was founded by a B.A. (Cantab.) named John Harvard; few could guess that Cambridge is the alma mater of Bacon, Byron, Darwin, Erasmus, Milton, Newton, Spenser, Tennyson, Thackeray, Walpole and Wordsworth. Strong in classics and "PPE" (philosophy, politics, economics), Oxford has dominated Whitehall and Westminster. But now England has a surfeit of politicians and debaters. It needs more scientists and engineers, and so it needs Cambridge...
...Boston's. Louisburg Square, with its 22 houses set around little garden in the center, best reflects the serenity, the calm, assured optimism, the decorous propriety of the Brahmins of yore. The pattern of these houses is English; No. 20 Louisburg Square was used for the filming of Thackeray's Vanity Fair...
Thurs., Jan. 12 Family Classics (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The first of a two-part adaptation of Thackeray's Vanity Fair, with Diane Cilento as Becky Sharp...