Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
A. D. Godley
Born: 1856
Died: 1925 (aged 69)
Bio: Alfred Denis Godley was an English classical scholar and author of humorous poems. From 1910 to 1920 he was Public Orator at the University of Oxford, a post that involved composing citations in Latin for the recipients of honorary degrees.
Known for:
- The Casual Ward: Academic and Other Oddments (1912)
- Lyra Frivola (1899)
- Oxford in the Eighteenth Century (1908)
- Socrates And Athenian Society In His Day (1896)