Word: eliotisms
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...consolation for getting a ‘B’ on my first Expos paper, I was confidently reassured by my preceptor that T. S. Eliot received the selfsame grade on his first paper, too. In fact, he received ‘D’s in Government, History and Greek, as well as a ‘C+’ in German. After Eliot’s first semester, Dean Wells sent a letter home. “Thomas is working at a lower rate than most freshmen,” he claimed...
...literary circles at Harvard, students and faculty alike take pride in the legacy of Eliot and E. E. Cummings ’15, which prompts the question: What is it about Harvard that makes it produce such a poetic tradition...
...Henry David Thoreau 1837 and Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821—went to Harvard, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a professor here for years. Harvard was the most obvious college for the second great generation of American poets. One of T.S. Eliot’s cousins was Charles Eliot 1853, President of Harvard, and E.E. Cummings’ father was a professor...
However, that rebellion can push poets away from the school, as much as it can inspire them. Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Eliot, Robert Creeley and Charles Olsen were among the poets to leave Harvard before finishing a type of degree...
...Eliot was controversial at first. Asked at a Harvard Medical School meeting why old ways of doing things had to change he answered that, “There is, sir, a new president.” Initial controversy subsided, and Eliot’s reign was marked by progress. In the spirit of change and optimism, the school adopted an innovative elective system. The “new president” was progressive for his time, and worked to create more racial diversity in the student body. Eliot was equally passionate in his hatred for football, which...