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Wednesday, April 24, 1918.
We left off last term, Gentlemen, upon a note of protest. We wondered why it should be that our English Version of the Bible lies under the ban of schoolmasters, Boards of Studies, and all who devise courses of reading and examinations in English Literature: that among our "prescribed books" we find Chaucer's "Prologue," we find Hamlet, we find Paradise Lost, we find Pope's "Essay on Man," again and again, but the Book of Job never; The Vicar of Wakefield and Gray's "Elegy" often, but Ruth or Isaiah, Ecclesiasticus or Wisdom never.