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...Excellent men, lovers of poetry, they are in no sense creative--and can inspire scholarship alone--never creative art. Like their lesser brethren, the gentlemen of the Anderson, Masters like, they can not hope to effect anything in the particular variety of endeavor for which the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry was endowed. So in the choice of Gilbert Murray is revealed a precision and accuracy of judgment truly to be commended...
...this work can too easily dwarf the proportions of any potential successor. Such must not be the case. Fear must not allow the University to fail in gaining the full advantage of such an endowment by provoking an appointment from within. One of the clearest advantages of this professorship is that it brings to Harvard, in succeeding years, men from without whose viewpoint is it similar in intellectual background, different in that it has developed in another atmosphere among other scenes. It will not be impossible to find such men for this position, uniquely difficult as it is. Cambridge, this...
...first public lecture of the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard will be given tonight in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock. Professor Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University, is the first incumbent of the professorship established by the Late C. C. Stillman '98, of New York City. His first lecture will be on the subject of "Tradition...
...single man brought its fame far above the fame of many another face-Woodrow Wilson. Today the type is perhaps best seen in onetime Editor Edward W. Bok of the Ladies' Home Journal, who last week bestowed $150,000 upon Princeton University for a Woodrow Wilson professorship in English literature...
...course one does not endow a $150,000 professorship to commemorate an accident of nature. Editor Bok's admiration for Woodrow Wilson had its roots in a temperamental affinity that naturally existed between two self-assertive individualists who could agree on many things; and in one strong-minded man's appreciation of another's "beautiful thinking machine." Also, Mr. Bok, with a self-educated man's capacity for admiring education in others, never ceased to marvel at Mr. Wilson's command of language, including slang. He even asked Mr. Wilson once how he came...