Word: boylston
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Archibald MacLeish is the Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric. He is the master of both and teacher of neither. Rather, he is the most famous of Harvard's writing teachers...
Somewhat nearer to Widener than to Boylston Hall squats a dragon, his squarish maw gaping in anger, or majesty, or perhaps in pain. On his broad back rests an erect ten-ton marble slab, inscribed with attractive Chinese figures. Fashioned in Tientsin, he was shipped to this country by Chinese alumni in China, to be presented on the second day of Harvard's Tercentenary celebration in September...
Some non-objective modern prints can be seen at the Boylston Street Print Gallery this week. The artist, Czechoslovakian-born Terese Haas, now on her way from Paris to Cambridge, works in a style that is rhythmic, sometimes heavy and Her designs seem to be influenced by abstract expressionism but they also fall within a general category of contemporary prints coming out of France and Germany...
Chafee served on many committees investigating civil rights, including the vice-chairmanship from 1934-1947 of the Commission on Freedom of the Press. This group included Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, emeritus, Reinhold Neibuhr and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory...
Students who became aware of this discrepancy immediately started circulating wild tales, even one to the effect that some clever fellow had hoodwinked the Harvard proctors by forging a "personal" note from Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and lecturer in the course...