Word: trevelyan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classmates at Harrow, George Macaulay Trevelyan seemed, as he himself tells it, like "a 'swot' of the worst kind . . . socially [a] misfit . . . a complete muff at cricket, and clumsy at football." He was "wrapped in literary and historical imaginings," and he was also a crashing bore. "I never had dreams of being a general, or a statesman or an engine-driver, like other aspiring children . . . I wanted to be [a] historian...
...Francis Trevelyan Buckland's notes on British rats, from his Curiosities of Natural History...
Nine of the most representative books in the list are as follows: "The Spirit of the Common Law," by Roscoe Pound; "History of England," by George M. Trevelyan; "Pocket History of the United States," by Allan Nevins and Henry S. Commager; "The Republic: Conversations on Fundamentals," by Charles A. Beard...