Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wine, a loaf of bread, a cow / Beside me grazing in the Harvard Yard / Oh would that Harvard Yard were paradise enow...
...turns out that the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory can't tether a cow in the Yard after...
...article in Time had given Fitzgerald's benefactors the impression that the professor could tether a cow in the Yard. But in a telegram to the students, Fitzgerald explained...
Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumball Professor of American History Emeritus, and author of a history of Harvard College, explained Thursday that the legend of the cow privilege derived from a century-old painting of such a creature grazing near Hollis Hall. The Boylston Professor, who was living there at the time, encouraged the rumor that the cow was his special privilege and it became legend...
...going to do it," he says. He is just finishing a critical anthology of the verses of the late James Agee, with whom he studied under Hillyer in the early '30s.* Legend says that the chair also confers upon the professor the exclusive right to tether a cow in Harvard Yard. But that, says Fitzgerald drily, "is a matter that each succeeding Boylston Professor must decide for himself." No farmer...