pferguson | August 22, 2015
Eric Valentine Gordon I can imagine them gathered around a table perhaps with a jug of ale, mead or warm cider. Finger foods, breads, meats and good conversation abound in tales of great imagination possibly anchored in some old tale of Norse or other. What brought them together…a common interest to share and then so […]
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pferguson | June 23, 2015
Individuals Are Not Nations It may have taken a while – yet once again I have managed to relocate a section of the library stacks familiar to me many years ago. With development at the University’s library rows upon rows of books have shifted to other areas of this repository of knowledge. I love my […]
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Tags: Allies, Brookfield School, Central Powers, Film History, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Great War, Libraries, Martin Clunes, Masterpiece Theatre, Maximilian Friedman Staefel, Mr. Chips, Oxford University, Rhodes Scholars, Scholars, Victoria High School
