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Excerpt from William Morris, Master of Many Crafts: A Study
Morris's undergraduate days were not distinguished by anything specially not able. He had already begun the study and cultivation of poetry, antiquities, and art; but there was nothing of the crank or the dildtante about him. Unlike certain other poets, he did not get into trouble with dons and proctors he kept out of debt; he never was in any danger of being sent down for irregularities of any kind. At Marlborough he did much sturdy hitting in the cricket field, and in an article William Morris, ma. Evidently written by a friend - which appeared long ago in the Univerriry Magazine, he is de scribed as a boy who was fond of a lark all round. At Oxford neither the regular studies of the Arts course nor the pursuit of his own special hobbies prevented his becoming a good oarsman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
