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Thirty years ago Miller was a Winthrop House tutor and a teaching fellow in History and Literature. He had studied at Oxford University under C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and was prepared for a life in academia. But, Miller says, he found that "things of the mind have an attachment to the real world," and he discovered a desire to help shape policy...
...tribe and climate are riddled with riddles. Enigmas abounded in ancient Rome, in Sanskrit hymns and the sagas of the Norse. Galileo composed some, so did Shakespeare and Cervantes. In the last century, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll experimented with trick questions; in this century, J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit offered a few original puzzles: "A box without hinges, key or lid. Yet golden treasure inside is hid." Answer: An egg. The sport trickled down to Gotham City, home of Batman and Robin; in a recent comic-book adventure, the Riddler leaves a clue to the locale...
Gilbert Grosvenor, president, National Geographic Society, at George Washington University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: "I think of J.R.R. Tolkien. The year is 1926. He sits in his study at Oxford correcting a student's thesis. The student had, for some reason, left a page blank. When Tolkien came to it, he picked up his pen and wrote on the blank page: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' Thus launched one of the great literary careers of our century. He was asked why he had done that, and he replied...
...that sponsors the program. In order to go on the outings, students must attend daily classes in "more conventional educational things," such as reading novels and writing. Each Harvard student teaches about eight children, and readings, although obligatory, are meant to be fun. One group last summer read J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, while McLeod led his group in putting together a magazine. Besides the CYEP, PBH's 23 student-run committees include one to deal with the problems of Cambridge's homeless, one youth recreational program, and several related to problems of the elderly...
...rural Indians who had alarmed his family by giving up a secure to seek a PhD in Slavie when it came to language, he was a natural athlete, and he worked for the Crimson Printing Company at night, setting exotic language and mathematics texts on the linotype machine. J.R.R. Tolkien was publishing the last of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy just then; Sandy and I got a scarce early copy from the old man who ran the Grolier bookstore and took turns staying up around the clock to read it. Afterward; for many nights at the Hays-Bick after...