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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Funeral services, for Edward Channing, Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Emeritus, will be held tomorrow at noon in Appleton Chapel...
Edward Channing '78, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Emeritus, died suddenly yesterday afternoon, between 1 and 2 o'clock at his home, 5 Clayton Circle, Cambridge. It is expected that funeral arrangements will not be made until today...
...Channing returned to Harvard as an instructor, and in 1887 became an assistant professor. From 1897 to 1913 he was professor of history, becoming in 1913 McLean professor of ancient and modern history. He was also a well known member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1925 was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the best book on history in the United States of that year. It was awarded for the sixth volume of his "History of the United States...
Tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock in the living room of the Harvard Union there will be held a University Tea. The tea is to be given especially for the members of the Division of Ancient Languages, The Division of Modern Languages including departments of English, Germanic and Romance Languages and Literatures, the Division of Semitic Languages and History, the Division of Music, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Concentration Field of History and Literature, Chinese, Egyptology, and Slavic, but all officers of the University and their wives, and all students are cordially invited to be present...
Humorously, though at the same time mournfully, Woodrow Wilson used to quote the professor who declared, after long acquaintance with undergraduates at an ancient and particularly famous university, "The human mind possesses infinite resources for resisting the introduction of knowledge...