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...recent appointment of Professor Gilbert Murray of Oxford University to fill the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry next year at Harvard has called forth considerable editorial comment in a wide variety of publications. Practically all of the opinions expressed look upon Professor Murray's coming here as a definite step in intellectual progress. Unanimous comment has also been made on the fact that the word poetry in connection with this professorship is to be taken in its broadest sense and is to include poetic expression, not only in language, but in music and the fine arts...
Heretofore, the N. E. A. support of this bill, now pendent many years, has been received by unbelievers without much comment. But last week there also came to the Congressional public hearing, a lot of harsh words about the proposed new Department. Senator Copeland of New York called it superfluous. President Lowell of Harvard called it bureaucratic and dangerously political. He said: "About education we talk much and know little." President Emeritus Judson of the University of Chicago called it a temptation to political vanity and unscientific. President Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania said it would violate state rights...
...Brown Herald regards the action as "a blow that adroitly puts to flight the false hopes we fostered for the future of athletics". The comment goes...
...recently announced action of the Athletic Association in raising the price which graduates must pay to attend Big Three football games, has been greeted by almost unanimous approval in the editorial comment which it has evoked. The Brown Daily Herald stands almost alone in condemning the action...
...York Times greets the step as reasonable in every respect. Its comment follows in part...