Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maintenance activity on the Northern front yesterday indicated that the University may be facing another insect war. Reports that a herd of termites had been seen entering the Yard called forth spade men who were seen at work throughout the afternoon around the Chinese whatsis, or dragon, by Boylston Hall...
Tomorrow evening from 9 to 1 o'clock the German Club holds its annual Spring Dance at the Cantabridgia Club on the corner of Boylston and Mt. Auburn Streets...
...appointment of Mr. Robert S. Hillyer to be Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University is a fitting tribute to a young man who has won distinction as a poet and teacher. At the same time it places upon him the heavy responsibility of following in the footsteps of John Quincy Adams--the first to hold this post --and, in more recent times, of Adams Sherman Hill, Le Baron Russell Briggs and Charles Townsend Copeland...
...Boylston professors have, with few exceptions, lived far beyond their allotted three-score years and ten. This should leave Professor Hillyer at least thirty years of active teaching and perhaps an additional decade or two in retirement. The extent to which he has developed and grown in the last twenty years holds the promise that he will be a worthy successor to the "giants" whom he succeeds. It is encouraging that such a high honor in Harvard's scholastic world has been given to such a young man. --The New York Herald Tribune
Founded in 1771, the Boylston professorship is Harvard's fourth oldest endowed chair and one of her most distinguished posts. John Quincy Adams was first incumbent in 1806. Others have been Joseph McKean, Edward T. Channing, Francis J. Child, Adams S. Hill, Le Baron Russell Briggs, and Charles Townsend Copeland...