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Perhaps the most surprising thing about them is that most of them read very much like the works of a 13-year-old-precocious, well-behaved and well-read beyond his years but a teen-ager nonetheless. Dedicated Carrollians will find few clues of the greatness to come. The Headstrong Man who . . . stood on high Upon a lofty wall; And every one who passed him by, Called out "I fear you'll fall...
Other features in the contemporary Bulletin are a comprehensive and well-read letters department, a column of "antiquarian chitchat" by ex-editor McCord entitled "The College Pump," a university section in which current releases from the Harvard News Office are re-written in a clear, light style and with background information added, an Undergraduate column written by the Bulletin's undergraduate editor about life at the College, and--of primary interest to many alumni--a report on the past fortnight's athletic happenings...
...last few months, Horst Huett has made quite a business of answering odd questions: it is his way of scraping together enough money to put himself through a university. The well-read son of a refugee minister from Pomerania, he had always wanted to be a philologist, but his wages from the local pipemaking factory were far from enough. Then one night he heard a radio quiz program, found that he could answer all the questions...
...many a well-read fisherman will recognize, the author is the learned Englishman, Izaak Walton, who grew tired of the life of an ironmonger, retired to the country and took up the contemplative pursuits of literature and fishing. His book, The Compleat Angler, originally published just 300 years ago, was republished this month, following at least 200 other editions, by the Stackpole Co. of Harrisburg, Pa., a city that had not been thought of when Author Walton (1593-1683) wrote his bestseller...
...well-read moppets know, the smallest and bravest of the twelve little girls was Madeline. Ludwig Bemelmans' 1939 picture-and-verse classic told how Madeline came triumphantly through one of the most delightful appendectomies in literature. It also made his heroine's name a household word with a host of youngsters and their elders, who, having to read the thing aloud night after night, found grown-up delight in Bemelmans' warmly colored fantasies of Paris...