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...then he could wear lace in his hat, and did not have to do fag duty for the upperclassmen. The portraits on display, which are of the same period, represent people once closely connected with the University, such as Nicholas Boylston, professor of Rhetoric, after whom is named the professorship the Hall, and the street...
Lawrence Binyon, noted British scholar and author, has been named holder of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry for the year 1933-34 to succeed T. S. Eliot '10, the present holder, it was announced last night...
...Binyon, the seventh writer to hold the Professorship, is known as an author and playwright, and also as an authority on Oriental Art. At the present time he holds the position of Deputy Keeper in charge of Oriental prints and drawings at the British Museum, with which he has been connected since 1893. He was educated at St. Paul's School, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he received the Newdigate Prize in 1890. He has delivered lectures in America on three previous occasions, visiting Boston in 1912 as a Lowell Lecturer...
...previous holders of the Norton Professorship are Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University; Eric Maclagan, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; Heathcote Garrod, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University; Arthur M. Hind, Assistant Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in London; Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik...
...Boylston prize, the third oldest award of the University, was founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in honor of his uncle, who established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, and will be awarded this year for the one hundred and fifteenth time...