The writing and correspondence of Hastings Rashdall: 1905 to 1915
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Letters to Rashdall concerning his appointment as Bampton Lecturer for 1915
12 May 1914
NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD.
Mr dear Rashdall,
We have elected you Bampton Lecturer for next year. I hope & think your lectures may be a real help to a good many people.
Yours very truly,
W A Spooner.
[Biographical note:
William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930) was Warden of New College, Oxford, and the man after whom the 'Spoonerism' was named. In his autobiography "Memories" (Oxford, 1967), C.M. Bowra maintains that Spooner's peculiarly off-sided style of wit was often mistaken for absent-mindedness, but was in fact quite deliberate. An example given is: "I can think of only two Christian socialists in Oxford, Dr. Rashdall and myself – and I'm not much of a socialist, and he's not much of a Christian."]
NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD.
Mr dear Rashdall,
We have elected you Bampton Lecturer for next year. I hope & think your lectures may be a real help to a good many people.
Yours very truly,
W A Spooner.
[Biographical note:
William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930) was Warden of New College, Oxford, and the man after whom the 'Spoonerism' was named. In his autobiography "Memories" (Oxford, 1967), C.M. Bowra maintains that Spooner's peculiarly off-sided style of wit was often mistaken for absent-mindedness, but was in fact quite deliberate. An example given is: "I can think of only two Christian socialists in Oxford, Dr. Rashdall and myself – and I'm not much of a socialist, and he's not much of a Christian."]
THE COLLEGE
DURHAM
May 13. 1914.
DURHAM
May 13. 1914.
My dear Rashdall,
It is a great honour that the University has conferred on you, especially considering the crisis in the Church of England. It ought to bid you to be of good cheer. And you have chosen a fine subject for your theme. Your logic and your excellent English should combine to produce a monumental book. I do hope you will not rush into print rashly against(?) Gore and Sanday. Gore’s pamphlet is detestable and Sanday’s is most pathetic. He has climbed down from the fence at last, and this is the most horrid thing he has published for a long time. I feel as if a very anxious era of battle ???? impending in the church; only as I said before, do nothing rash or bitter, if you can possibly help it.
With every good wish,
ever yours,
A H Cruickshank.
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