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...different professors will lecture on individual authors. In the first semester, lecturers will probably include Cedric H. Whitman '38, professor of Greek and Latin, on Homer; Finley on Sophocles; Wilbur M. Frohock, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, on Rabelais; Bullit on Cervantes; and Harry T. Levin '23, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, on Shakespeare...
...other Senior Fellows are Walter Jackson Bate '39, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Leo Professor of Economics, Harry Levis '33, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, physicist Edward M. Purcell, Gade University Professor, and Willard Van Orman Quine, Pierce Professor of Philosophy...
...noted that William Alfred, associate professor of English; Reuben A. Brower, professor of English; Alfred B. Harbage, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot, professor of English; and Harry T. Levin, Irving Babbitt professor of Comparative Literature, may give some of the lectures. With Seltzer, they form the Faculty Committee on Drama...
...Dean Ford, and six other scholars in the Society, which selects the Junior Fellows. Other Seniors include Crane Brinton, Chairman of the Society and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History; Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry; Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee professor of Economics; Harry T. Levin, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature; Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor; and Willard V. Quine, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy...
This is disastrous talk. The kind of committee approval and lukewarm acceptability required by federal grants would surely be fatal to jazz; it would force jazzmen to go to work for squares. Gone would be the blue lights and the old naughtiness. George F. Babbitt would be right there, tapping his foot...