Because the political honors would have compromised him (especially acute
when his cousin Stanely Baldwin eventually become Prime Minister), while the
academic honors ministered to an ego still festering from watching Stanely
and others go off to Oxbridge while he had to serve "seven years hard" of 15
hour days in the blistering Indian heat as a dogsbody in a newspaper house.
Dave Richards
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> From Fred Lerner via Roger Ayers
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> But if Kipling "never went to University, and ...what he saw as the
> literary pretensions of scholars may well have rankled with him all
> his life", why was he willing (indeed, eager) to accept academic
> honours while steadfastly refusing all political ones?
>
> --Fred Lerner
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