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...series of public lectures on Oriental art will be given at Harvard University by Laurence Binyon, noted British scholar and author, it was announced today at University Hall...
Harvard University entered its 298th year with Dr. James Bryant Conant as new president. This year Harvardmen will save some $110,000 on room & board, the University having reduced rates. Last week Harvard announced that Poet-Scholar Laurence Binyon, deputy keeper of the British Museum, would succeed Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot in the famed Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry. One of the 1,000-odd freshmen registering at Harvard last week was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. who arrived with a bodyguard. The freshmen were greeted by Charles Francis Adams. Harvard overseer who counseled: "To be a success you must...
...Harvard, the Charles Eliot Norton and the Kuno Francke. On alternate years the holders of these chairs are authorities on art. Hind, Goldschmidt, and Kohler are the distinguished teachers from abroad who have been at the Fogg Museum in the past three years. Next year we will have Lawrence Binyon of the British Museum. F. B. Deknatel...
...Binyon, the seventh writer to hold the Professorship, is known as an author and playwright, and also as an authority on Oriental Art. At the present time he holds the position of Deputy Keeper in charge of Oriental prints and drawings at the British Museum, with which he has been connected since 1893. He was educated at St. Paul's School, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he received the Newdigate Prize in 1890. He has delivered lectures in America on three previous occasions, visiting Boston in 1912 as a Lowell Lecturer...
...number of volumes of plays, verses, and works dealing with Oriental art have been published by Mr. Binyon. Notable among these were the plays "The Young King," produced in 1924, and "Boadicea," produced...