Author: Brown, Herbert Ross,
Title: Sills of Bowdoin: the life of Kenneth Charles Morton Sills, 1879-1954.
Description: NY, Columbia Univ Press, 1964. VG in G DJ. A former Latin instructor famed for his fidgets (he used to tear whole handkerchiefs to shreds while teaching),"Casey" Sills. mellowed into a pleasant, paunchy ex-scholar, famed for his love of Dante, or eating (so goes the legend) 11 lobster tails at one sitting, and for living to run piny campus just as if Longfellow were still there. "Excellent teaching in wooden halls is much better than wooden teaching in marble halls." Top edge of DJ has some tears at top.

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