Word: boylston
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Died. Robert Silliman Hillyer, 66, winner of the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and from 1937 to 1944 occupant of Harvard's prestigious Boylston Chair of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position previously held by such notables as John Quincy Adams and Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland; of a heart attack; in Wilmington, Del. A prolific novelist, essayist and critic, Hillyer was most at home in verse where he deftly combined elegance and gentle irony...
...will be back tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in Watson rink when the Crimson faces off against the first Cornell hockey team that has ever beaten Yale. Tickets for undergraduates with coupons are available at 60 Boylston Street.COACH COONEY WEILAND...
...prestigious Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, vacated by the announced retirement of Archibald MacLeish, will probably not be filled within the next two years, according to W. J. Bate, Chairman of the Department of English...
Poet Richard Wilbur has reportedly been offered the Boylston Professorship and has declined. His case exemplifies, according to a source in the University, the problem the Administration has in filling the position. Although its prestige is high, the salary of the Boylston Professor is often not enough to attract a prominent writer, poet, or critic away from his work...
...last half century, the Boylston Professor has taught an advanced writing course in the English Department. Among MacLeish's predecessors have been John Quincy Adams, later sixth President of the United States; Edward Tyrell Channing, founder of the North American Review; Francis James Child, who introduced the study of English literature in America; LeBaron Russell Briggs, a great Dean of the College; and Charles Townsend Copeland, the renowned "Copey...