purpose of WOTY contests

[Michael Adams]

 Thanks, Fred! Cromwell's version of his quotation is so much more eloquent. Perhaps I can remember it better from now on, though that remnant of childhood learning survived pretty well, after all.
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 From: fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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 Sent: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 8:12 PM
 Subject: Re: purpose of WOTY contests

  On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Michael Adams wrote:

 > (Believe it, in the bowels of Christ I may have misremembered Cromwell
 > -- perhaps Fred has a more accurate quotation.)

 I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be
 mistaken.
 Oliver Cromwell, Letter to General Assembly of Kirk of Scotland, 3
 August 1650

 Fred Shapiro

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