Word: greenough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chester N. Greenough, Professor of English, died in the spring of 1938, and Kirsopp Lake, Professor of History, resigned in 1937. Professor Lake is an example of a man giving only part time to the English department. George L. Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, resigned...
...like Professor Kittredge, and it is difficult to single out certain men as replacing others directly. Nevertheless, John N. Bush, Professor of English, who was promoted in 1937, certainly relaces Professor Lowes in a scholarly sense. George W. Sherburn, Professor of English, appointed in 1939, assumes Professor Greenough's former position. Howard M. Jones, Professor of English and Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages, joined the English staff...
John Richardson, Jr. of Milton, and Noble and Greenough School; Massa- chusetts Hall...
Peter Saltonstall, second son of the Governor, is another Yardling who enrolled yesterday. Last year he did some fame winning of his own when he won the 1000 meter run in the private school meet as a student at Noble and Greenough School. Yesterday afternoon he reported for Freshman football as a guard candidate...
...order in the chaos which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves him. I can speak only with authority as to my own experience in the English Department in the years 1933-37. It was significant that in the well-taught courses--for example, those of Professors Kittredge, Greenough, and Murray--virtually no student had any need or desire for tutoring. It was rather in such courses where a tremendous reading list was supplemented not with exposition or enlightenment on the subject matter, but with a series of the disorganized personal ideas of the individual lecturer that the average...