Word: deronda
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Dates: during 1877-1877
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...true that there is to be established at Harvard a Deronda professorship? The literature of the subject really seems to call for this; and as Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, I see, has been lecturing on George Eliot before the Boston University, I hope that the authorities at your Cambridge seat of learning may be waking up to this great want of the time. The lecture-room of the new professor ought to be in the Zoological Museum for convenient reference in a general way to matters pertaining to the Stone Age and various geological strata, which might throw valuable light...