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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). The Letters of Horace Walpole, discussed by Wilmarth Lewis and Louis Kronenberger...
Charles Eustis Bohlen '27, counselor to the State Department; John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland assistant professor of English: John R. Dos Passos '16, novelist; Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, author and editor and a member of the Yale University Corporation; David Edward Owen, professor of History and chairman of the Committee on General Education; and Warren Abner Seavey '02, Bussey Professor...
...research ranges from Tacitus to spiders, from servomechanisms (socalled slave machines) to cancer and carbon 14 (the radioactive isotope that dates objects up to 30,000 years old). In its library (4,000,000 volumes), scholars are now in the process of editing the fabulous Boswell papers and the Wilmarth S. Lewis collection of Walpoliana. The "Boswell Factory" and the "Walpole Factory" alone make Yale the custodian of the most impressive collection of 18th Century English literature in the world...
...career began in Chicago, where he worked his way through the University of Chicago, had a try at journalism, got a law degree, hung out his shingle and became an apostle of reform. He was freed from the need of working for a living when he married Mrs. Anna Wilmarth Thompson, a wealthy divorcee. Between cultivating dahlias and collecting stamps, he annoyed Sam Insull, gave his legal talents free to Jane Addams of Hull House...
...speakers included President Lowell, '77, George Lyman Kittredge, '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature emeritus, Stephen Vincent Benet, poet, Edward Ballantine, '07, associate professor of Music, musician, Robert E. Sherwood '18, Wilmarth Lewis, Blaiv Clark '40, President of the Signet, and MacGeorge Bundy '40, Secretary of the Elizabethan Club...