The Henson Journals
Sat 18 May 1929
Volume 48, Page 88
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Saturday, May 18th, 1929.
I started reading in bed Rashdall's History of the Universities, a work which he gave me as a wedding present in 1902. It is an amazingly erudite work, & brings home to me with desolating force the gulf that parts the learned man from the man who can only, even in flatterous politeness, be called "well read".
A golden oriole is said by a correspondent in the Darlington Paper to have been observed in Hartlepool.
The new President of Magdalen, Gordon, delivered an interesting address to the "Sir Walter Scott Club", of which he was President for the year 1928. He said, "I have read in the last twelve months, with all the old pleasure, almost everything he published". He must be a quick reader.
It is stated that Mrs Parkhurst is to have a statue in the Victoria Garden, next to the House of Lords, and that the Prime Minister is to unveil it! "We are getting on", as Asquith would say.