Word: vir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shelley, Poeta et Vir Sui Judicii...
...impressionable Shelley. He rapidly conceived an intense loathing of the whole social order, the marriage contract in particular. He became an atheist. Most Oxford men go through such phases, but Shelley was supersensitive and these seeming sane ideas crystallized into a philosophy. He became for life, with notable exceptions, vir sui judicii. The writing and distribution to the Dons of the Necessity of Atheism ended his Oxford sojourn with cataclysmic suddenness. Shelley was "sent down...
...Oscar H. Waters, publisher of The New York Democrat, "only Negro Democratic daily in America," Bishop R. B. Robinson of Vir- ginia, Percy A. Brown, John Banks, Charles Puleston, Walter Robinson...