Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1920 — POETS WORD GOOD ENOUGH [ARTICLE]

POETS WORD GOOD ENOUGH

Student Was Absolutely Satisfied Without the Necessity of Seeing Any Proofs. A good story is going the rounds of Princeton about Prof. Alfred Noyes, the English poet. Professor Noyes, it is well known, likes very much to read his works aloud to his friends, and at Princeton, with so many young men under him, he is usually able to gratify this liking to the full. The other day Professor Noyes said to a junior, • who had called about an examination: “Walt a moment Don’t go yet I want to show you the proofs of my new book of poems.” But the junior mode for the doot frantically. “No, no,” he said, “I don’t need proofs. Your word is enough for me, professor.”