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...present academic year draws to a close, change in an important Professorship gives its closing a special meaning. Since 1926 Professor Bliss Perry has held the Francis Lee Higginson Professorship of English Literature. As editor and teacher, the passing years have found him well-liked in his success; as professor emeritus, future years will find him well-remembered in his retirement. A scholar as well as a speaker often inspiring, he brought the best of himself into the classroom, and left the touch of his kindly, whimsical personality upon the great men of letters whom he interpreted. His students will...
...next incumbent of the Francis Lee Higginson Professorship thus enters upon a tradition which will not soon be forgotten by Harvard men. It is fitting that Professor John Livingston Lowes should be called upon to continue that tradition...
Other men have had more academic degrees and more academic distinctions. "Copey" never got beyond the A. B. degree. He never wrote a learned thesis for the Ph.D. parchment. And, Harvard, foolishly enough, penalized him for it. "Copey" was fifty before he was granted even an associate professorship; sixty-five before the grudging doctors made him a full professor. But the men who met him in his classroom in old Sever Hall, or climbed the stairs to his bachelor's sanctum in Hollis, and the hordes who poured into the Union whenever it was announced that "Copey" would read knew...
Following a custom established by Gilbert Murray during his tenure of the professorship several years ago. Professor Garrod will be at home informally on Thursday afternoons in his rooms, 37 Grays Hall. At that time all undergraduates who may care to come in are welcome...
...degree from Harvard in 1894, and after two years in Iowa as a railroad construction engineer and a short while as designer for the American Bridge Company of Pittsburgh, returned to Harvard in 1902 as an assistant instructor in civil engineering. His promotion to an assistant professorship came in 1903; in 1914, after a year as an associate professor, he achieved a full professorship...