Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

His wife's parents made substantial contributions that made the expansions possible. "
The professor asked his students to discuss the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' "sprung rhythm" technique. Academic and professional life
Phelps was very athletic and played what was then the new game of baseball as well as golf and lawn tennis.

William Lyon Phelps (January 2 1865 New Haven Connecticut – August 21 1943 New Haven Connecticut) was an American author critic and scholar. He was a well-known speaker who drew large crowds. He taught the first American university course on the modern novel.