Word: wrexham
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...Connecticut Collegiate School. Yet the colonists so deeply appreciated it that they changed the school's name to honor the donor. And now, having expanded over the years, the present university last week sent 150 alumni, professors and students led by President Kingman Brewster all the way to Wrexham, Wales, to unveil a plaque commemorating the gift made by Elihu Yale...
Attentive Welshmen gathering last week in Wrexham for the national festival or Eisteddfod of Wales politely honored a bleak, grey-mustached, sensitive man who as a youth polished cuspidors and the brass rail of Luke O'Connor's bygone saloon in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Later in Yonkers, N. Y. sensitive John Masefield learned to abhor the Machine Age by working in a rug mill. Last week as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom he told Welshmen that "the world subconsciously longs for poetry but it now invents substitutes, such as speed, to obtain the excitement...
...young men of Yale wandered through the splendors of Harkness Memorial Quadrangle and marveled. They drew inspiration from other works of Architect James Gamble Rogers, praised with President James Rowland Angell the "splendid uprush" of collegiate Gothic. There were few iconoclasts to denounce the theatrical charm of Wrexham Court and its tower ("copy of Wrexham Tower, England, built 1506"), or the artificially-cracked window panes and impressive, scholarly gloom of Harkness chambers which resulted from the building being designed principally from the outside. Originally intended to give U. S. education a hoary, spiritual aspect, neo-Gothic has only lately been...
...JONATHAN SCRIVENER-Claude Houghton-Simon & Schuster ($1). One James Wrexham, impoverished but well-educated Englishman past his first youth, is distastefully employed in a real-estate office. One day he answers an advertisement in the London Times, is accepted, becomes secretary to mysterious, invisible Jonathan Scrivener...
Secretary Wrexham never sees his employer, who goes abroad after hiring his secretary solely on the strength of his letter of application. Wrexham's only duties are to live in Scrivener's London flat, catalog his library, receive his friends, write occasional reports to the absent employer. One by one Scrivener's friends turn up in search of him, get acquainted with Wrexham, tell him what they think of Scrivener. Each description is different. None of the friends have met, but through Wrexham they become intimate. Complications ensue. Soon Wrexham is convinced that the whole business...