Word: boylston
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Ever since Nicholas Boylston endowed a chair in rhetoric and oratory at Harvard with ?.1,500 in 1771, its ten distinguished holders, starting with John Quincy Adams, have been charged to pursue excellence "in the theory and practice of writing and speaking well, that is, with method, elegance, harmony, dignity and energy." Last week Harvard assigned the chair to methodical, elegant, harmonious, dignified, energetic Robert Stuart Fitzgerald, 54, poet, journalist, anthologist and translator of the classics...
...Boylston chair has now gone to four poets in succession: Fitzgerald's predecessors were Robert Hillyer, who retired in 1944 and died in 1961, Theodore Spencer, who died in 1949, and Archibald MacLeish, who retired in 1962. It is one of the Ivy League's most informal posts, permits its holder to make of it what he will. Fitzgerald has no doubt at all about what he intends to do with it. "I am a writer and have writing to do, and I'm going to do it," he says. He is just finishing a critical anthology...
...connection with the Quincy Holmes Arts Festival, Robert S. '33, newly-appointed Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will from his translations of Homer and speak on the art of translation at tonight in the Quincy House Common Room...
...Harvard Debate Council and a University of Philippines team will debate the United States' role in South Asia at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow night Boylston Auditorium. The Harvard will argue for United States with...
...Thomas Boylston bequeathed money to Harvard in 1771 to endow a professorship. The first Boylston Professor. John Quincy Adams, was appointed...