Grateful Lecturer

Grateful Lecturer

For the past six weeks the faculty of the University of Notre Dame, famed for football, has been temporarily increased by one member: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, paradoxologist, author (The Flying

Inn, The Man Who Was Thursday), prime defender of the faith (Catholic Essays, St. Francis of Assisi). Author Chesterton gave a series of lectures on Victorian literature and history. Last week, when it was time to pack up and leave South Bend, Ind., he became effusively grateful at the recognition with which the institution recognized his labors: an honorary LL. D., given by the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, president, at a special convocation of the faculty.

Not used to receiving kudos (he has one LL. D. from the University of Edinburgh), Lecturer Chesterton accepted the honor with the following words: "Gratitude is the only thing worth expressing on an occasion of this kind, but it is one of the ironies of human nature that grati tude can never be fully and completely expressed in words. My sense of unworthiness is so acute that I cannot describe it."

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