The Texas House of Representatives last week found some of George Gordon, Lord Byron's writings "not fit to be read by any person within or without the University [of Texas]." The House resolved to investigate the $20,000 purchase, for the university's noted rare-book collection, of early editions of Byron, Browning, Lamb, Shelley, Tennyson and Petronius Arbiter. All the House charged, were "obscene" or "atheistic."
More than a simple outcropping of Grundyism, this was the latest engage ment in an unending conflict between the Austin Legislature and the university, whose tower looks down...
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