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Mr. C. P. Scott in the course of a short address said:-
Nothing can be more untrue
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European countries (taking Russian and Norwegian easily in his stride), and has helped us by his books to enter into their liter ature; he has done more: he has helped us to enter into their life. For his sympathies are as wide as his knowledge, and it is part of his strength that, he has never aought to divorce literature from life.
critics who had made themselves' by their knowledge of internation- all literature secure against the perpetual temptation of insular- ity.
Lord Crawford and Balcarres, the Chancellor, accepted the por trait on behalf of the University.
the
Professor Herford, in reply, A distinguished company
said that when he looked at those gathered in the Whitworth Hall of
splendid walls he was forced to Manchester University to take Professor Elton congratulated remember the long period ip part in the representation of a the University on coming into the which he had witnessed portrait painted by Mr. T. C. possession of "this distinguished growth of this college. His mem- Dugdale of Professor C. H. memorial," and said that some ory went back almost for sixty The college was in Herford, lately Professor of Eng-of them in the South felt that years, lish Literature, to the University. they had done better still, by its early stages very homely, like The portrait was handed over to having Professor Herford actual a house-coat not made for the Lord Crawford and Balcarres,ly amongst them.
wearer. It was only to the eye of the Chancellor, by Mr. C. P. Professor Alexander said that Imaginative persons that the Scott, Professor O. Elton, and Pro- he felt it a great privilege to take splendour of the academic robes: fessor S. Alexander on behalf of part in the proceedings, not could be seen against the swarthy a large number of subscribers, merely because of his long in background, much as Mr. Dugdale whose names have been inscribed timacy with Professor Herford, had suggested them in his picture. In a roll which the Chancellor pre- but because he was one of the few There came a time when the sented to Professor Herford. The left of "the old gang" of the college began to draw about it portrait was unveiled by Mr. academic staff who had been here robes of academic greatness, Dugdale.
all the time of Professor Herford's efficiency, and proficiency; and tenure of his office. So that he this moment was in some sense knew the regard and the affec- the culminating moment of the tion with which he was regarded career in which he had witnessed than to suppose that what con-by the University staff. "We the career of the college. He was cerns the University does not also were proud of his distinction as most grateful to those who would necessarily concern the city. The a scholar and as a critic and a allow him still to watch, by this University belongs to the city-is writer.". Professor Alexander pictorial means, the course of the part of it, and a very vital part. said, "and we knew also that he University from these or other The University-of-Manchester is had 22 Continental reputation walls. the oldest of the great municipal which few of the rest of us could universities which have sprung claim to possess." Although up all over England and Wales on many of them knew little of his its model since the middle of the graver writings, they had per- last century (Scotland provided petual testimony in the columns handsomely for itself a few cen- of a paper not unknown to them turies ago). It is the most of the illuminating way in which famous and the most developed, he could write upon literary sub- and it was founded by a Man-jects. "I think some of us
Mme. Ada Bodart, whom the chester merchant. It contributes grudged him even to the 'Man- by its training to our prosperity, chester Guardian' at times," Germans sentenced to death at He the same time as Nurse Cavell for and by its achievements to our Professor Alexander said. reputation. It prepares its stud-was half-ashamed to say these helping Allied soldier refugees to ente for the work of life, but, things, but they had known also escape from Belgium-but whose above and beyond that develops that Professor Herford had be-sentence was commuted to im- their intelligence and makes of longed to a group of English Prisonment and who was released
them, in the full sense, educated
men.
NURSE CAVELL.
. MADAME BODART IN
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after the Armistice has arrived In London from Brussels. She will re-enact for "Dawn," the English film, the part she played in grim earnest in 1914-15. Miss Sybil Thorndike is taking the role of Nurse Cavell.
Madame Bodart, a dark haired woman of considerable charra| who was wearing her decorations
It is to such task these that Professor Herford has devoted his twenty years of brilliant and unstinted service. I will not now attempt to appraise his work in the region of scholarship and criticism. But I should be un- grateful indeed if I did not record my personal obligation to him-- an obligation which is shared by all readers of the paper to which he has so generously contributed for the help which for many years he has given as a reviewer in the appreciation of our own literature and that of other coun
FOR THE ELDERLY tries. Surely no more delicate and discerning estimate of the litera- and for persons of delicate con- ture of our time has appeared institution Pinkettes are a blessing the Press than that which bore because, taken when needed, they the familiar and honoured initials dispel constipation gently and na- turally, banish sick headaches, of "C. H. H."
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soldier refugees. Kiangaa Road, Shanghai.
Nor has Professor Herford even been of those to whom ab- sorption in an exacting task has meant the narrowing of sympathy or the limitation of outlook on the world of men and of affairs. It is not merely that he is at home in the languages of half a dozen
.D.AH.O.WELLS Bristola London
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she has received the Legion of: Honour, the Belgian Cross of Gold; the Order of the British Empire, and the British War Medal told a reporter that she was born at Richmond, Surrey, her mother being English and her father Scottish. She married a Belgian, on whose death she was left well-to-do, with two children and a large house, and became: before the war a friend of Nurse Cavell who was working at a Brussels clinic. Mme. Bodart con- tinued:
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