St. Olaf Wrestles With Milton's Angel, and Prevails

By JENNIFER HOWARD

Northfield, Minn.

When Richard J. DuRocher, a professor of English at St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minn., told one of his classes that he was running a marathon, everybody cheered. Then he told them what kind of marathon: a straight-through, out-loud reading of John Milton's Paradise...