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Anniversaries
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Births: Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay), novelist and diarist,
1752; Thomas Young, linguist and physicist, translator of the
demotic inscriptions of the Rosetta Stone, 1773; Dr Thomas Arnold,
Head of Rugby School, 1795; James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, 1831;
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine, 1854;
William Butler Yeats, poet, 1865; Elisabeth Schumann, operatic
soprano, 1885; Dorothy Leigh Sayers, thriller writer and
playwright, 1893. Deaths: Alexander the Great, 323 ...
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Anniversaries
The Independent - London
; Births: Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay), novelist and diarist, 1752; Thomas Young, translator of the demotic inscriptions of the Rosetta Stone, 1773; Dr Thomas Arnold, Head of Rugby School, 1795; James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, 1831; Catherine ("Skittles") Walters, courtesan, 1839; Sir Charles
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Quotation
Charleston Gazette
; Words to the wise "Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
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`The Whistle of a Jacket' by Jack Butler Yeats at Christie's
The Independent - London
; A member of Christie's staff holds `The Whistle of a Jacket' by Jack Butler Yeats, expected to sell for pounds 1m at auction next week Jack Hill
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`The Whistle of a Jacket' by Jack Butler Yeats at Christie's.(News)
The Independent (London, England)
; A member of Christie's staff holds `The Whistle of a Jacket' by Jack Butler Yeats, expected to sell for pounds 1m at auction next week Jack Hill
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The Wednesday Book: Travels and travails of a troubled literary man; A Victorian Wanderer: The life of Thomas Arnold the Younger Bernard Bergonzi Oxford University Press, pounds 25.(Comment)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: Susan Elkin RARELY CAN a biography have been so aptly titled. Thomas Arnold was a wanderer in every sense. The son of Dr Thomas Arnold, renowned reforming headmaster of Rugby, and the brother of Matthew Arnold, poet and school inspector, Tom Arnold had contacts that enabled him to spend a
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The Locust Song
Poetry
; the wise and wry observation which the young William Butler Yeats offered one evening in The Cheshire Cheese to his fellow young poets in the Rhymers Club: "None of us can say who will succeed, or even who has or has not talent. The only thing certain about us is that we are too many. -Paul Carroll
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ABOVE THE FAIR.(Irish artist John Butler Yeats)
World of Hibernia
; THE AUCTION HOUSES HAVE QUICKLY LEARNED TO APPRECIATE THE BUZZ CREATED ANY TIME A JACK B. YEATS PAINTING COMES UP FOR SALE. WITH THE MARCH 1999 OPENING OF THE YEATS MUSEUM AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND, THE CREATIONS OF THE SLIGO ARTIST CAN BE NOW BE STUDIED AND APPRECIATED AWAY FROM THE SLAM
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PROGRAM EXAMINES POEM OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.(Stars)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; Byline: Laura T. Ryan Yeats scholar Rob Doggett, who teaches English at the State University College at Geneseo, gives a free talk, Nationhood and William Butler Yeats' The Tower', at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Grewen Auditorium at Le Moyne College in Syracuse.
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For college teachers, Sep ...
The Washington Post
; For college teachers, September is the month of returning to work, often with mingled feeings of eagerness and dread. Here are two poems about the academic profession. William Butler Yeats directs his scorn toward certain professors in "The Scholars": Bald heads forgetful of their sins, Old,
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Education Notes From a Better Past.(quotations from Rugby school principal Thomas Arnold)(Brief Article)
Insight on the News
; Thomas Arnold, who lived from 1795 to 1842, was one of those 19th-century larger-than-life Englishmen such as Charles Dickens, William Gladstone or Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who helped define what it meant to be British more than a century ago. As headmaster of Rugby, one of the great English public
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