Education: The Earl Goes Home

One of the most distinguished rebels of his generation finally had a job last week that suited him. It was high time. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 71, by primogeniture third Earl Russell and Viscount Amberley, in his own right a world-famed mathematician and philosopher, accepted a Cambridge fellowship. It was offered him by his famed alma mater, Trinity College, which in 1916 dismissed him for a pacifism he no longer holds to.

Bertrand Russell, who looks like a twinkling Mad Hatter and talks like a twinkling Alice, has found the U.S. a through-the-looking-glass...

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