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the old brownstone building complex has house the Royal Cambridge Scholastic Institute for more than 200 years. The top ranked New England educational institution has an English flavour, quite fitting toe. It's rich traditions, rigorous discipline and a tough and demanding curriculum. However, no one embodies better the character off the prestigious school than Professor Rasmus Cromwell Smith. His Tundras voices Boston cadence cause I perfect in diction and as hard and heavy as it gets in British accent Everything about the never married and China list 62 year old professor is born in wrinkled, including his tweed jacket with leather shoulder pads, his Kashmir and cardigan sweaters, his leather briefcase, hiss face, his hair, his shoes and even his glasses. And yet, as unkempt as he is on the mundane, his students described him as an awesome T shirt are borrowing from a great American and insanely great poet. But the taciturn and circumspect pedagogue simply transforms himself when he commences each of his poetry classes as if more from seemingly catatonic state into a stampede of charisma, knowledge, light and endless patience. What nobody knows but his doctor and himself is that earlier in the week, he has been diagnosed with a very aggressive and incurable form ofthe brain cancer that, barring any miracles, will incapacitate him from doing what he loves most in life. Not prone to inaction, much less feeling sorry for himself, Professor Cromwell quickly makes a couple of significant resolutions. First, he will treat each day as if it is his last second. He will reveal in this class a Siri's off lifelong secrets he has treasured for the last 54 years. So in a way, his class of 2017 is fortunate because they will be the recipients, often unknown but valuable gift our bait at the risk of being interrupted at any time, perhaps permanently by his terminal disease. The young woman with the long golden curls is the first to arrive. She has been looking forward to take his class ever since she heard Professor Cromwell Smith recite a poetry from the Chilean Nobel Prize laureate Pablo Neruda. Today the students send something new as he walks in a faster pace than usual. There is tension in his jaw, and by the way, he's spacing with quick strides back and forth, something he never does it quickly becomes quite obvious that he is eager to start, irrespective of whether every attendee is ready or not. He then interrupts the classrooms nagging buzz with his opening words for the new year. Freedom and equilibrium in My Class, the most important rule is punctuality. Just be on time for everything. If the classes at eight show up a few minutes early so you can be ready and fully prepared by eight. This year, our class will be a journey into the world of poetry, but with a twist. As through narration and reading, I will be taking you to a place I was born and grew up in states. The professor, as he pulls out a stack off crumple papers from his well worn leather briefcase. So here we go. I was born in 1954 in the small town off Hey, ennui in Wales. Back then, my birthplace was still mediaeval, and I mean it literally, not only in its ways and architecture, but also in the mentality of the majority of the population