Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judges of this competition will be the Reverend Samuel A. Eliot '13; Irvah L. Winter '86, associate professor of Public Speaking, emeritus; and a third gentleman to be announced later...
Centennial celebrations plans to commemorate the birth of President Eliot on Tuesday, March 20, were announced yesterday by Edwin H. Hall, Rumford Professor of Physics, Emeritus, and president of the Charles William Eliot Memorial Association. The anniversary will be marked by the unveiling of a bust of President Eliot presented to Eliot House by the association, and by speeches by many well-known men concerning the former president, including a nation-wide broadcast by President Conant, former President Lowell, and Chief Justice Hughes...
There will be several different programs and exercises in and around Cambridge. The bronze bust will be unveiled in the court-yard of Eliot House in the afternoon. It will be presented in a speech by Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, to whom Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science will respond in an acceptance address. The unveiling will be officially performed by Charles W. Eliot, III, great-grandson of the president, now four years old. Admission to this ceremony will be by ticket, and will be limited to members...
...work he is doing in public speaking. Professor Harvard is starting a series of phonograph records which may revolutionize all present methods of teaching in these courses. Through the Harvard University Press victrola records have already been made by Charles Townsend Copeland '32, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oxatory, Emeritus, and by Fred Norris Robinson '91, Professor of English. These records are now on sale, and include readings from chapters six and seven at the "Book of Revelation," by Professor Copeland, and part of Chaucer's. The denner's Tale" and "The Debate of the Body and the Soul...
...other records have been completed but are not yet on sale. Bliss Percey, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, has recorded a description of Emerson's last days in Concord, taken from his latest book and also a part of Thackeray's "Born Diamond." T. S. Eliot '09, former Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has recorded readings from his own poems, "Gertion" and "Hollow...