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...realm of ancient cultures, the Harvard staff will be assisted by one of England's most brilliant Greek scholars. Dr. Cecil M. Bowra, Senior Tutor since 1933 of Wadham College, Oxford, will give courses in Homer's "Odyssey" and in "Greek Lyric Poetry of the Fifth Century." At the age of 19, Dr. Bowra fought in France with the Royal Field Artillery. Upon graduating from New College, Oxford, in 1920, he specialized in the study of Classical Greek Poetry, and has published several works, including "Tradition and Design in the Iliad," 1930; "Ancient Greek Poetry," 1933; "Greek Lyric Poetry...
Thence back to the Tower and very glad to open some letters and see I am taken in at Oxford, October next. Yet I have not heard much of Wadham College save it looks a pretty ruin with fresh gardens. This is a virtue I like very much for it will be fine in the Spring, and did not many a rich philosophy begin in a garden? By and by comes ___ and, all a bubble, brings me his album; a mighty fine job it is, yet, bless my soul, for an address book ten dollars 'is very steep...
...Dolores was not all posing for artists. She was the daughter of an obscure Lancashire actor. Her unfortunate mother trouped provincial music halls for years, finally died of cancer too. Three men committed suicide on Dolores' account. When she was a handsome overdeveloped child of 15 one John Wadham, secretary to the aristocratic Caroline, Lady Gordon Lennox, took poison. The next suicide was that of Lieut. Frank Amsden, her first husband. In 1929, Frederick Atkinson, a painter and writer of flamboyant verses, did away with himself after friends finally convinced him of Dolores' persistent infidelities...
Frank Bygott, captain two years ago of Wadham College Boat Club at Oxford, said: "I was bored . . . [then] I found that winning people to Christ is the greatest adventure in life...
Could there be a more charming and delightful excursion into higher education? But the thing that really convinces us that there is something superior in the English system is the Latin grace which is inscribed in the common room of Wadham, and which celebrates the brown sherry for which that college is famous. It reads, "We thank Thee, O Lord, as for all Thy other mercies, so especially for this, Thy creature, brown sherry...