Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need not soliloquize upon the merit of this first incumbent of the Chair of Poetry: even the public prints recognize Professor Murray's addition to English letters. Yet certain merits in the choice of such a personality for this position may be commented upon. Not the least of these merits is taste. This age like all others has many writers of verse, many creative minds in literature. Unfortunately, too few of these men possess in addition to their native ability, the mental poise which disallows the indiscretions of mediocrity. Not content to pray to their own muse, they wantonly...
However that may be, "Tradition on Poetry" will be the subject of a lecture given in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock tonight by Professor Gilbert Murray, and to hear the incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry is an opportunity no vagabond should miss...
...There is some reason," said the sly one, nearing his game, "for sus- pecting that Mr. Lowell today is only keeping the presidential chair warm for someone who is a little too young to occupy...
Professor Gilbert Murray, emminent classicist and Regins Professor of Greek at Oxford University, who was named the first incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton chair of Poetry, will give his initial public lecture next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre...
...Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry was established by the late C. C. Stillman '98, of New York City. Professor Murray selected to be the first holder of the chair, is one of the most noted scholars in the world on classical subjects. And in the field of poetry...