Word: elton
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...English A-4 will be called English 79 as formerly. At present no change in the subject-matter of the latter courses is planned. English 41, long associated with the name of Professor Bliss Perry, will be given for another year under the supervision of Professor Oliver Elton, who will come to Harvard from the University of Liverpool...
...that reason especially, the names of Professor Elton of the University of Liverpool and Professor Patch of Smith College among the new appointments to the College of Arts and Sciences for the next academic year are more than welcome additions. Their appearance as lecturers in particular courses will serve to bolster a falling superstructure. Contemporaneous with the departure to England of one of Harvard's most brilliant scholars and popular teachers, the second appearance of the English authority is opportune in balancing the deficit occasioned by the loss of Professor Lowes. The acquisition of both men represents a definite step...
Appointments of four lecturers to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were announced yesterday at University Hall. Professor Oliver Elton, of the University of Liverpool, and H. R. Patch, Professor of English at Smith College, will teach in the English Department during the year 1930-31. Gaetano Salvemini, of the University of Florence, will lecture in the History Department this next half year while Josef Schumpeter, of Bonn, will be associated with the Economics Department...
Professor Elton, who lectured at Harvard in the spring of 1926, has been appointed lecturer in English for the year beginning next September. He received his M.A. at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Durham, Manchester, Oxford, Edinburgh, and Liverpool. He was King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool from 1900 to 1925, and is the author of books discussing the early periods of English literature...