A REMARKABLE CAREER
It. is seldom' that so interesting an appointment has been made at Cambridge us that, of Mr. Thomas. Ok'ey to Ibo Professorship .of Italian founded by Mr. Serena. Perhaps the most.i interesting point in Mi - . Okey/s'remarkable career ie not'that "ho ivas till well-'over forty ii basket-maker- by ..trade, but that while ho acquired his.knowlelgeof modern languages,, and particularly. Jtalian, in foreign countries ho supported liimself._.by. Jiis trade. Among his" numerous books and articles are two on , this arlv, The published, contributions tlo. the study ot Italian - life-,and literature which, .-together with . the personal recomineudhttong.of scholar's,.have secured him the Professorship'are' \ "History ( of Venice, , ' "Ijtaly To-day," a chapter o"n "Itnly -Unitod" in the "Cambridge Modern History,', and some translations from Danto and,Mazzini. .It-.'is apparently the cm? that ho 'has jiarticularly 'studied Italy in its ''modern aspect, and his appointment is ail'index of-the new movement for making the ; ' study of modern languages eocial'flml' historical rather than philological.—"Tlio .(iu'atdian."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 9
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158A REMARKABLE CAREER Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 9
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