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...will be a close race and Robert S. Playfair '36 will provide a strong race for Bob Quimby from Hanover with John P. Scheu '35 and Alfred B. Hallowell likewise toeing the mark for the Crimson in this event. In the Half Mile, John Dorman '36 and Anthony A. Bliss '36 who are both fast middle distance runners are the Harvard entries. Francis Schumann '35 and John D. Woodberry '35 are entered in the Pole Vault and in the High Jump there is Luther Scheffy...
There will be several different programs and exercises in and around Cambridge. The bronze bust will be unveiled in the court-yard of Eliot House in the afternoon. It will be presented in a speech by Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, to whom Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science will respond in an acceptance address. The unveiling will be officially performed by Charles W. Eliot, III, great-grandson of the president, now four years old. Admission to this ceremony will be by ticket, and will be limited to members...
...other records have been completed but are not yet on sale. Bliss Percey, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, has recorded a description of Emerson's last days in Concord, taken from his latest book and also a part of Thackeray's "Born Diamond." T. S. Eliot '09, former Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has recorded readings from his own poems, "Gertion" and "Hollow...
...Mile Relay race to be contested with Yale, John Dorman '36, Thomas F. Locke '35, John B. White '34, and Captain John M. Morse '34 are due to receive the call. Anthony a. Bliss '36, John P. Scheu '35, John B. White '34, and Robert S. Playfair '36 are entered as the two-mile relay team that will race against Holy Cross and Boston College and should win with case if their performance at the K of C may be used as an indication. The Freshman one-mile relay team is composed of Walter D. Brookings '37, Hayden Channing...
Scholar-Writer Bliss Perry retired almost three years ago and Humanist Irving Babbitt died last July, but Harvard still has giants in its English department. One of them is tiny, big-voiced John Livingston Lowes, 66, keen student of the Romantic Movement. He is perhaps the most brilliant U. S. example of the great scholar-teacher whom President Conant wants on his faculty. Another giant is snowy-bearded George Lyman Kittredge, 73, bon vivant, Chaucer and Shakespeare authority, prime link between Harvard's past & present...