William of Wykeham but he was pardoned by the new king Richard II in July 1377, weeks after Edward III died. (Richard was the son of Edward, the Black Prince, who had died in June 1376, a year before his father.) Under Richard II, William resumed his position as a royal councillor. Although he took the side of the Lords Appellant in their disputes with the king in 1388, he also managed to maintain good relations with the king, and served as Chancellor again from May 1389 to September 1391. After years of supporting poor scholars at Oxford University, he founded New College,
He Who Shrank He Who Shrank "He Who Shrank" by Henry Hasse is a science fiction novelette printed as the featured story in the August 1936 issue of "Amazing Stories" magazine (illustrated on the cover and in interior page by Leo Morey) about a man who is forever shrinking through worlds nested within a universe with apparently endless levels of scale. It was reprinted in the 1946 collection "Adventures in Time and Space", edited by Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas, and in Isaac Asimov's anthology of 1930s science fiction "Before the Golden Age". A world-celebrated professor reveals to his assistant, the