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Fortuitously Marcus Daly then met Dr. John H. Durston, a learned philologist who had abandoned a professorship at Syracuse University to edit the Syracuse Standard, which he quit in the heat of an editorial dispute. In his own luxurious Montana Hotel (to which an extra story had been added because "it didn't look good enough") Daly opened his checkbook and commanded Dr. Durston to build for him, there in the sprawling, brawling smelter village of Anaconda, "the best newspaper that can be made." Editor Durston imported two of his associates from the Syracuse Standard and set to work...
...family. (At Philadelphia Mrs. Gary in a black & eggshell chiffon & lace gown was reckoned the best-dressed doctor's wife. Georgie, eldest of her three daughters, was along with her.) He built and gave Baylor its Gary Hall. Two years ago he surrendered his many university connections, except the professorship and became medical dean-emeritus...
...chief features of the Norton Professorship is that the donator has left room for a liberal interpretation of its provisions. Although in the past the lectures have varied wided between poetry and art, the subjects themselves have not been ones which were entirely new to the Harvard curriculum. This fact, of course, did not necessarily tend to lessen their interest of value. However when such a relatively unappreciated field as Icelandic literature is brought before the public, it is an indication that the Norton lectures will become of still further service in the coming winter. There are few opportunities...
Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik, scholar and poet, will come to Harvard for the academic year 1931-32 as the fifth incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry. He will succeed the Norton Professor for the current academic year, Arthur Mayger Hind, of the British Museum, formerly Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford...
...Norton Professorship of Poetry was endowed by the late C. C. Stillman '98, in memory of Professor Charles Eliot Norton. By the terms of the endowment, the incumbents are to be chosen, without limits of nationality, from men of high distinction and preferably of international reputation. In the administration of the gift, the term "poetry" is to be interpreted in its broadest sense, including, together with verse, all poetic expression in language, Music, or the fine arts, under which term architecture may be included...