The Times, June 16th 1887, p. 5: “The Royal Holloway College for the education of women opens its first session on the 4th of next October…instruction is offered in Divinity, classics, medieval and modern languages, mathematics and natural science, history and political economy, mental and moral science, and the theory of music. There are also to be yearly courses in hygiene, ambulance work, cookery, and needlework..”
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Classics at Royal Holloway in 1887
14/07/2011Former RHUL & Bedford Classics Lecturer Poem
11/07/2011Louis MacNeice, poet and lecturer in Greek at Bedford College from 1936, in ‘Prayer before Birth’
I am not yet born; rehearse me
In the parts I must play and the cues I must take when old men lecture me, bureaucrats hector me, mountains frown at me…
I am not yet born; O hear me,
Let not the man who is beast or who thinks he is God come near me.
I am not yet born; O fill me
With strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton, would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing, and against all those who would dissipate my entirety, would blow me like thistledown hither and thither or hither and thither like water held in the hands would spill me.
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