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third dimension
tuesday, march 15, 1977
3D staff
Bte..-.,,
Trivia nuts, this is for you ! The following was quoted .
directly from The Dictionary of Misinformation by Tom
Bur nam.
"Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have
loved at all." Although they are usually applied to tradi
tional relationships, these famous lines from section 27,
stanza 4, of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's long poem In Memo
nam do not refer to love between man and woman. They
were written, as was the whole of In Memoriam, with
reference to Arthur Hallam, Tennyson's close friend,
whose premature death at 22 was a shattering experience
to the young poet (Tennyson himself was in his early 20s
when Hallan died.)
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Often
thought to have been spoken first by Franklin D. Roose
velt at his inauguration in 1933, these words, or others
like them, had been spoken by Montaigne in the 16th
Century ("The thing of which I have most is fear"),
Francis Bacon in the 17th ("Nothing is terrible except
fear itself), and the duke of Wellington and Henry David
Thoreau in the 19th ("The only thing I am afraid of is "
fear"). Even further back Proverbs 3:25 has "Be not
afraid of sudden fear."
Sherlock Holmes. At no point in any of the 56 short
stories and four novels that Arthur Conan Coyle wrote
about his famous detective does Holmes say either "Ele
mentary, my dear Watson," or "Quick, Watson, the
needle!"
Money is the root of all evil. Not what the Bible says.
Correctly, it's "For the love of money is the root of all
evil." See I Timothy 6:10. There is a difference.
Doctor, as a title. Medical doctors and dentists invari
ably refer to themselves and to others holding the M.D.,
D.M.S., or DD.S. degree as "Dcotor." As everyone
knows, it is incorrect to refer to the holders of these
degrees as "Mr.," "Mrs.," or "Ms."
Contrary to popular belief, however, it is entirely
proper to address holders of the Ph.D. as "Mrs." "Mrs."
or "Ms." In fact, in America it is regarded as rather pre
tentious for the holder of the Ph.D. to put "Dr." on
his office door or calling card.
Hale, Nathan-and his dying words. Nathan Hale is best
remembered for saying on the gallows, "I only regret that
I have but one life to lose (not "give") for my country.
However, that is not what he said. Recently discovered is
the diary of Capt. Frederick Mackenzie, a British officer
who was there. He praises Hale for his courage, but re
cords his last words as, "It js the duty of every good
officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief."
In Joseph Addison's Cato (act 1 , sc. 4) are the words:
"What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our
country!"
Wall Street, name of. Tourists often think Wall Street
got its name because of the way high buildings seem to
Svair it in. But this is not so. The street was so named
because there actually was a wall across Manhattan Island,
designed to keep the Indians from the small city then
huddled on the tip of the island.
Man-eating plants. Everybody knows that there are
some plants which attract and "devour" insects, but no
plant or tree has ever been found that eats up men or large
animals-de spite stories to the contrary.
Desiderata. The poster or wall-hanging, that goes by
this name (desiderata, from Latin , can be roughly trans
lated as "those things to be considered desirable") and
opens G6 placidly amid the noise and haste, and remem
ber what peace there may be in silence" is still sometimes
thought to have been "found" at Old St. Paul's Church in
Baltimore and to date back to 1692.
Actually it was written by Max Ehrmann and copy
righted by him in 1927; the copyright was renewed in
1954 by Bertha K. Ehrmann. First versions of the poster,
which swept the country a few jTears ago and is still a
standard item in gift shops, erroneously claimed that it
dated to the 17th Century and had been discovered
during some remodeling at Old St. Paul's.
Old St. Pauls's was actually founded in 1692, which
perhaps accounts fo the early confusion. Current versions
of the poster carry a proper copyright notice, thus re
storing to Mr. Ehrmann the credit he was entitled " all
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