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...terms of English department professorships, Harbage fills a vacancy that was left when F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, died April 1950. Matthiessen was teaching the undergraduate Shakespeare course, English 123, at that time. He also carried a very heavy teaching and research load in American literature, and it is understood that the English and History and Literature departments are still on the on the lookout for a man in that field...
Before his death in January 1949, Theodore Spencer, Boyiston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, shared the teaching of English 123 with Matthiessen. The course was taken over by Harry Levin, professor of English, but his main interests are not in the Shakespearian field, and an expert in the area was hadly needed...
...While Matthiessen called himself a professor of History and Literature, History and Literature is not a department but a committee, and Matthlessen's professorship was in the English department, from a budgetary point of view...
...last day of the month marks the first anniversary of the untimely death of Professor F. O. Matthiessen. Everything important about him was said by way of eulogy. All that is demanded for him now is the continued tribute of respect...
...country has as a feeling and responsible nation cannot be conveniently put aside. As an exercise in devotion let us turn up any chapter of the American Renaissance. It will tell us more keenly than any praise what irreparable loss we have suffered by the death of F. O. Matthiessen. Robert E. Rockman...