Word: matthiessen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University officials early this morning mourned the death of Professor F. O. Matthiessen...
...Matthiessen was born in Pasadena, California, in 1902. He graduated from Yale in 1923 and went as a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Literature. In 1925 he returned to Harvard and received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in 1926 and 1928. After a brief period as instructor at Yale, Matthiessen returned to Harvard in 1929 and has taught here since...
...note found in Matthiessen's room at the Hotel Manger read in part...
...only other item found in the room, police said, was a pin of the Yale Skull and Bones Society of which Matthiessen was a member...
...Matthiessen was the author of a number of books, including "American Renaissance," "The Achievement of T. S. Eliot," "Henry James: The Major Phase," and "From the Heart of Europe." He was considered an outstanding authority on James and Eliot...