Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cummings, famed for his unique of punctuation and capitalization, succeeds composer Aaron Copland in post. His appointment in for one year, effective July 1.
It is not known what course Cummings will teach. The main function the Norton Professor is to deliver eight Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. He is also required to give a spring half term course.
E. E. Cummings '15, noted American poet and painter, has been appointed Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for next year, the University announced recently.
Born in Cambridge in 1894, Cummings received his A.B. here in 1915 and Masters degree in 1916. During World War I, while serving with the Nor Harjes Ambulance Corp, he was detained for three months in a French prison camp. Out of this experience came first book, "The Enormous Room...
Committee chairman are; publicity, Laura Klein: hotel arrangements, Louise Provinse; program, Carol Cummings Ellsberg and Anne Sears; printing, Holly Walker; tickets, Katherine Greenman; commuter arrangements, Sarah E. Pond. All are members of the Class of '53.