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Stephen Leacock, the astounding fellow who possesses both a Professorship in Economics and what some people have seen fit to term a sense of humor, has completed a magnum opus, a life of Charles Dickens, which is to be published on November 16. It is something of a shock to consider the name Leacock in connection with a serious work. It will be interesting to note whether that shock interferes with an appreciation of the work...
...O.M.W. Sprague has been our client for many years and has always had our confidence in his integrity and credit. Mr. Sprague holds the Edmund Cogswell Converse professorship of Banking and Finance at Harvard, and has served as professor of Economics at the Imperial University in Tokyo. In 1930 he went to London where for two years he was Financial Adviser to the Bank of England, and he is now Chief Economic Adviser to the U.S. Treasury. We consider him a reliable client in every way. Sincerely yours...
...series of public lectures on Oriental art, Laurence Binyon, eighth holder of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry, will contrast the western point of view of art with that held by the Chinese; and will trace the currents of thought and art between the East and the West...
...Binyon, who is Deputy Keeper at the British Museum, has just come to America as the eighth holder of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry, succeeding T. S. Eliot...
...James Bryant Conant as new president. This year Harvardmen will save some $110,000 on room & board, the University having reduced rates. Last week Harvard announced that Poet-Scholar Laurence Binyon, deputy keeper of the British Museum, would succeed Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot in the famed Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry. One of the 1,000-odd freshmen registering at Harvard last week was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. who arrived with a bodyguard. The freshmen were greeted by Charles Francis Adams. Harvard overseer who counseled: "To be a success you must be among the fittest, for they shall survive...