The Professor Who Entered Oxford's Greek Chair With Misgivings
In an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford, the new Regius Professor of Greek noted that he had been elected to Glasgow's Greek chair nineteen years earlier in succession to Sir Richard Jebb, and was now appointed to the same subject's Regius chair at Oxford.
He then admitted that few men enter either chair without misgiving, and that his own doubts were deepened by the two great figures he had followed.
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The Bywater line is the warmer touch: to speak of him, the lecturer says, is like praising him to his face.
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That may be the warmer line, but the misgiving sentence is the more calculating one: calling the two men he followed great figures quietly tells the audience not to expect a replica.