The Henson Journals

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Maundy Thursday, April 1st, 1915.

241st day

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I celebrated the Holy Communion in S. Gregory's Chapel at 8 a.m. Then I finished my Easter Sermon. After lunch I went to the Choristers' Field, & watched the boys at their sports. Dennett is evidently on good terms with them: & seems to be very happy in this place. Later I went to the station to meet Dicey, who was coming from Oxford to pay us a visit. The train was a full hour late. The excellent professor is more vigourously loquacious than ever. At the moment he is keen on investigating the politics of Wordsworth, in whom he believes himself to have unearthed a supporter for his own attitude towards the War. It is almost pathetic to hear him frankly unsaying the severe criticisms of sport & sportsmen, in which he once indulged. Not the least attractive feature of his character is a certain naïve candour, which never hesitates for one moment to acknowledge error, not perhaps always with full justice to it. He talks so much that he eats nothing, which worries his host!

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