THE GLOOMY DEAN
Dr. "W. E. Inge, dean of St. Paul's, ' ivho attained his three score and ten recently, owes his nickname, "the . Gloomy Dean," rather to those follies ho castigates than to any real pessimism on his part, but it must be admitted > that at one period of his career ho was . regarded as a veritable joy-killer, states the "Sunday Times." When a lee- . turer at Hertford College he was : chosen, on account of his minute knowledge of the classics, to give inslrue- i tion in those- textual and grammatical small points, tlic extreme difficulty of ; which makes them favourite* questions with examiners. His lectures, though invaluable for examination purposes, were perforce so excruciatingly dull as , ro inspire a byword among the students, "Kill-Inge no murder,"
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 42, 18 August 1930, Page 3
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