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...Norton Professorship--gives in 1925 by Charles Chauncey Stillman--honors Harvard's first professor of the History...
...things were working out Wednesday morning. Adams went to the men's room in Mem Hall. He came out with a broken zipper. He walked holding his Harvard notebook in front of him instead of at his side. After making two more exam stops, Adams headed for his Chauncey Street home to change pants...
Thereafter, coincidence takes control. "1 am Chance the gardener" is heard by the woman as "I am Chauncey Gardiner." When she brings him home for first aid and her husband asks Chance about his business, the simpleton's candid replies are interpreted as wise metaphors. When the President meets Chance while visiting the industrialist, he asks his opinion of the depressed stock market. "In a garden," says Chance, "growth has its season ... as long as the roots are not severed, all will be well." The President uses the line on TV and credits Chauncey Gardiner. The press assumes...
...have to be kidding. The folder tells us majestically that Chauncey Winston Minot VII was director of this, president of that...etc...etc., but not where they stand on anything. The alumni think they're reading somebody's resume, mark their X's...and lo and behold...two-thirds of Harvard's ruling body has sideburns down to their knees...
...Charles Chauncey Still man 98 established the Norton professorship in 1925 in memory of Harvard's first professorof the History of Art. A special University committee chooses annually a man "of high distinction and, preferably, of international reputation" to fill the one year post...