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Completing a span of seventeen years of valuable teaching and research at Harvard, Wilbur Cortez Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History has announced his resignation from the faculty. Universally recognized as one of the outstanding authorities on British history, Professor Abbott's History 42 has been one of the most valuable courses in the field. His interest and deep study of English history of the Seventeenth Century has resulted in the publication of "A Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell," and "Adventures in Reputation...
Professors Abbott's knowledge of Seventeenth Century England has in many instances cast a new light on the understanding of the revolutionary and religious movements of that significant period. For his books on this subject, perhaps even more than for his lectures he will be remembered as a great scholar possessed with the keenest of intellects and yet with the crispness of wit which save his works from the abyss of factual documentary, but dull historical evidence...
...Gilliland, cf lf, p, Manker Downs, 3b rf, p, Soden Moore, 2b, ss p, 3b, Wiley Burbank, ss, p c, Mason Turner, c cf, Findley Benedict, 1b ss, Van Slyke Kelly, lf 3b, rf, Murphy Kerby, rf 2b, Stacey Cherbonnier, p, 2b 1b, Johnson SUBS: Lowisohn, rf cf, Abbott 2b, Riddle
...Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell", by Wilbur C. Abbott, professor of History. $5.00. A four orders, and letters, as well as more important documents, never brought together before, as well as the details of Cromwell's activities in Parliament, Published April...
William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, will be 41 on Wednesday, May 12; Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, 61 on Monday, May 24; Lawrence J. Henderson '98, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, 59 on June 3 and Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, 42 the same...