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...Emerson Foote, 50, who resigned nine months ago as executive vice president of McCann-Erickson Inc., the world's second-largest ad agency (first: J. Walter Thompson), returned to advertising as chairman of Manhattan's Geyer Advertising, Inc. Longtime (26 years) topflight Adman Foote, who left McCann-Erickson (TIME, Feb. 18) "to return to the personal practice of advertising," made a "substantial" investment in Geyer, which ranks 38th in ad billing with bookings of $20.5 million. Self-described as "an overgrown account executive and a frustrated copywriter," Foote will get a chance to work both ends...
...Emerson D is filled these days with English concentrators and dilettantes leaning forward to memorize Perry Miller's interpretations of the White Whale; Sever Hall draws about a roomful of the less dilettantish who wish to gain Kenneth Murdock's analyses of American literature to 1825; and the Coop is stocked with books by Faulkner, Twain, Hawthorne, Cooper, and the Puritan writers...
Wendell and "Copey" continued their trilogy alone until 1911, when the second great name in the teaching of American Literature at Harvard, Bliss Perry, began teaching a graduate course on Emerson. This was the first non-survey U.S. literature course to be offered and one of the few non-survey courses in the department. Survey courses, " in outline," were "the norm for college literature courses in that day," Murdock explains, adding, "I wouldn't be caught dead giving one like that...
...break in survey courses brought about by Perry's Emerson course was only temporary. Other survey-type courses in American literature were being added to the English Department. In 1914, "Puritanism in English and American Literature." Chester N. Greenough, the third "founder" of United States literature study here, taught that...
...United States is in "deadly peril" of being forced under by "despotic dictatorship, as so many decadent democracies have been in the past," Senator Joseph S. Clark, Jr. '23 told the Harvard Young Democrats in Emerson Hall last night...