Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gilbert Murray, the first professor to hold the Charles Eliot Norton chair of poetry, will address an American audience for the last time before leaving for England, when he speaks tonight at the Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock. the address is being given in the Symphony Hall to accommodate those who have been unable to hear his lectures in halls of more limited capacity...
Professor Murray is the first occupant of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, founded recently by C. C. Stillman '98. For the past few weeks the distinguished scholar has been delivering these lectures at the University...
Below are reprinted for the first time two letters exchanged between George Herbert Palmer and Charles William Eliot on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the latter's incumbency of the presidential chair at Harvard University. Through the extreme courtesy of Professor Palmer in allowing the CRIMSON to publish these illuminating documents the public is given a personal contact with Dr. Eliot wholly delightful...
...worries of an individual student. Rollo Brown, in the curent Harper's, paints a quiet personal portrait of the Olympian, finds him to have been "a very wise man, a very good man." And in an earlier number of the same magazine, Edward Martin from the editor's easy chair takes stock of the personal qualities of the great educator: "A splendid man; tolerant, generous, bold: not always right, but majestic in the steadiness of his effort to know the truth and teach it, and make it prevail...
...that the question of pardon is one of a governor's most serious problems, as one pardon inevitably leads to a host of applications for others. Last week I was presented with 10,000 signatures urging clemency for Brooklyn Patrolman John J. Brennan, 28, condemned to the electric chair. On Jan. 2 one Samuel Krainen, shopkeeper, called at a Brooklyn police station, and identified Brennan as one who had created a disturbance in his shop when drunk. As a sergeant was thereupon removing Brennan's shield, Brennan fired a revolver at Krainen, killing him. Last week, during...