“RED-HAIRED COMET”
OXFORD HONORS WOMAN HISTORIAN OXFORD, March 8. The honorary degree of D.Litt. was cbmelflSt in Convocation here, to-dav on Mr. and Mis. L. IJa lmnond, the social historians luirbdiiHng Mrs. Hammond, the Public Ora for referred to her career at Lady Margaret Ilall, and said that she bid tiuctlt the highest honors “like a ccfript with flaming led hair.” THiSj it is dridfersibod, is reference to ' dli' ihcjdeni (it the Examination Svhdols y fbeii Hfimlnoild was taking Finals. Oh the’desk of an undergraduate who sat near her was found the following limerick : While I with the help of a crammer Can only got beta and gamma, That girl over there, With the flaming red hair, Gets alpha plus, every time, damn her. When Mr. and Mrs. Hammond were presented together the Public Orator said : “This has probably never occurred before. These two historians are united not only in matrimony but in a long series of hooks.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18068, 20 April 1933, Page 11
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