Word: garrod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speak at intervals throughout the year. According to advice from England, he has been elected a member of the Merton Common Room, a privilege which entitles him to attend the common dining hall of the college. It will be remembered that Merton is the college of Professor Heathcote William Garrod, who held the Norton Chair of Poetry here last year...
Heathcote William Garrod, at one time Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard during the past year, sailed yesterday on the "Scythia" for Liverpool. He will reach Merton College. Oxford, during "Eights Week," spending the last month of the term there...
Professor Garrod's Harvard lectures will be issued during the summer by the University Press, under the title, "Poetry and the Teaching Office, and Other Lectures." The volume will include talks on Matthew Arnold, Emerson, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Bridges, and related subjects in poetry...
Professor Garrod was particularly interested in the dining room, where he found a high table. "Here," he said, "not only the warden or head of the Hall, sits, but also the student heads of committees, so that the high table is composed, with the exception of the head of the Hall, entirely of undergraduates. It is a democracy of the most advanced sort...
...suggesting this solution to the much-discussed problem of the high table, Professor Garrod emphasized that no undemocratic feeling would result from such an arrangement. The high table could be used for the students indiscriminately...