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DR. HARRY W. ROBBINS ♦ ♦ ♦ Beneath the seeming New England austerity tliat is characteristic of Dr. I larry W. Robbins lies a Frostian humour, a gentle understanding of the minds of men, and a scholarly mind rich in literature and in life. During his seventy years, Rob- bie has been a football player and a journeyman printer, an army captain, a high school teacher, and, for the past thirty years, a professor of English. He reads a French or German te.xt or an old Anglo-Saxon manuscript with the same ease with which he attacks a problem in semantics. Those of us who have heard him describe nightingales in an early English dawn believe that he is a poet; those of us who have spoken to him o f life and its problems know that he is a philosopher. Dr. Robbins was graduated from Brown Uni ' crsitv in 1908, and received the deoree of Doctor of Philosophy from the Llniversity of Minnesota in 1923. He has been chairman of the Buckncll Department of English for thirty years, during which time he has been on numerous important faculty committees, a foundation member and president of the Bucknell chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and an advisor to Sigma Tau Delta. He is a member of the American Association of University Professors, the Modern Language Association, the Early English Text Society, and Le Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Best known as the co-editor of the widclv printed WesXevn WorlA Literature, for which he completed several translations. Dr. Robbins has also published Le Miroir de Seinte Eglise, Ricluinl Rollc ' s ' Devout Meditacioiiiii, ' and worked on a translation of The Hoiiiance of The Rose. The rigors of academic duties ha ' c ne ' cr succeeded in hiding the twinkle in his eyes, his almost boyish satisfaction over a good bridge hand, or the dry wit ex- pressed in muted asides. Students who j enetrate the Vermont severity discover that Robbie is both warm and kind, and that he has a keen awareness and an under- standing that can spring only from years of studying, of reading, and of living.
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m am y(nec( t(nd Forewords are customarily written to give explanations, and are usually read as a finale to the rest of the book, after the fraternity and sorority pages have been well thumbed, the personality pictures discussed, and the last proof reading error soundly criticized. It is onlv then that the gentle reader turns to the foreword, to see what the editor has to sav bv way of excuses. We have no excuses, no messages, no instructions to cherish this book as a memento of happy days that will be no more, no remarks that 1953 is the dawn of a new era. We merely preface the pages of the L ' AGENDA with the comment that it, like all other annuals, has been produced, processed, engraved, and sweated over just for YOU. YOU are cordially invited to frame and keep for admiration the painting which Bruce Mitchell created for us, as the most tvpicallv Buckncll landscape that anyone could select. YOU are cordially invited to peruse the section containing the pictures of the administrative officials, which contains very little of novelty, for the administration, as the backbone of the university, undergoes little flux and even less commotion. YOU are cordially in ited to glance o ' er the academic section, which contains THE STORY OF THE THREE BROTHERS The story of Ab, the first brother The story of Bis, the second brother The story of Eng, the third brother YOU are cordially in ' ited to search for our face among the many faces con- tained in the activities section, which turned a deaf ear to the Muses and a bright face to Ogden Nash. YOU are cordially in ited to turn to the personalities section and meet a sur- prising and diabolical new visitor to those pages. YOU are cordially invited to step aside for a moment while we turn the spot- light on the heroine of our book, and INTRODUCE IVY
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