Word: boylston
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David Riesman '31 will teach a half course, Social Sciences 136, "Character and Culture in America," during his first year as professor of Social Sciences. Other upper level courses planned by the Committee on General Education, are Humanities 136, "Poetry and Experience," to be taught by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and Humanities 137, "The Classics in the Renaissance," which will be given by Hanna H. Gray, instructor in General Education...
...witty and knew it. Harvard anecdotes about him, like Lincoln stories, are legion and legendary. But the reason for the stories, both true and apocryphal, is that they perpetuate the personality of a truly unique teacher who left no other significant relics. As an English instructor, and later as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, he taught two famous courses; an advanced writing course and a course titled "Johnson and his Circle." He wrote only one book, compiled two anthologies, and allowed a short moving picture to be filmed of himself reading aloud...
Eight or ten men will be added to the night patrol force in an attempt to "hit the entire area every night," according to police officials. The "area" involved is bordered by the Charles River, Boylston St., Cambridge St., Trowbridge St., and Putnam...
...radio program is being edited by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. He has previously produced three CBS Radio Workshop presentations...
Dean Bundy said yesterday that the departments of Romance Languages, Slavic, Germanic, and Comparative Literature, would move into Boylston. He said that the English and Classics departments, plus the Committee on History and Literature, would also make use of the building...