Education: The Third Man

To those who knew him well, the Rev. Charles L. Dodgson of Oxford University was a confusing fellow. Sometimes he was a stammering mathematician, who lectured so ploddingly that he often had to threaten his students with an extra assignment of "lines" to get them to class. At other times he became Mr. Lewis Carroll, the man who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and had a passion for kittens and children. Last week a Welsh professor reported some curious evidence about a third Mr. Dodgson—the curator of the Christ Church Senior Common Room....

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