Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Jebb's Lectures
A.S.F. Gow, Letters from Cambridge, 1939-1944 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1945), p. 240:
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Jebb was not an eccentric; he was a Knight, an M.P., a friend of Tennyson, and, as a scholar, not so distinguished as his contemporaries thought but still distinguished. His idea of lecturing was to read out in a monotonous inaudible voice from a notebook or proofsheets strings of references which nobody would look up and which would not have profited them if they had.
