Word: exgovernor
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...meeting of the Yale Alumni Association last Friday night, ExGovernor Chamberlain of South Carolina introduced a resolution declaring in effect that the professorship of English literature, now vacant, was the most important in the faculty and should be filled by the most eminent scholar available. In all the struggles between the classics and the sciences. the importance of the study of English literature has been steadily on the increase in our various colleges. This is due of course, to many widely differing causes; but we think there is no influence so strongly at work now as the one voiced...