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... learning who happened by a chance gift of fortune to be also a poetic artist . No one has ever lived a more intensely academic life . His home background had no- thing to offer him : he was a fastidious scholarly type , incon- gruously ...
... learning who happened by a chance gift of fortune to be also a poetic artist . No one has ever lived a more intensely academic life . His home background had no- thing to offer him : he was a fastidious scholarly type , incon- gruously ...
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... learning , some of which was his own , but more of which lay hidden in the treasure - house of western thought and endeavour , a theme of perpetual charm and interest to the spirit of man . As his powers grew and his range broadened ...
... learning , some of which was his own , but more of which lay hidden in the treasure - house of western thought and endeavour , a theme of perpetual charm and interest to the spirit of man . As his powers grew and his range broadened ...
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... learning , sympathy , and wit . Little was always himself . In him , more than in any scholar I have met , the man was inseparable from what he did . And the consciousness of this fact can be felt in all the letters written about him ...
... learning , sympathy , and wit . Little was always himself . In him , more than in any scholar I have met , the man was inseparable from what he did . And the consciousness of this fact can be felt in all the letters written about him ...
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LIST OF FELLOWS | 9 |
CORRESPONDING FELLOWS 1945 | 14 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir John Clapham | 14 |
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