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Four Norton lectures will be given during the months of October and November by Heathcote William Garrod, Fellow of Merton College, and Sometime Professor of Poetry at Oxford, the visiting lecturer who holds the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry at Harvard this year. On four consecutive Wednesday evenings Professor Garrod will speak in the Fogg Large Lecture Room at 8 o'clock, where his lectures will be open to the public...
...certainly hope that my lectures can be found," said Professor Garrod to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "I intend to open the series with a lecture on Poetry and the Teaching Office, a subject which I hope is not too old-fashioned for Harvard men. Then I expect to speak twice on Matthew Arnold, and once on Emerson...
Beyond these four lectures, Professor Garrod has made no plans. The exact dates and subjects of the entire series will be announced later, when he has had an opportunity to adjust himself to his new surroundings, and perhaps regain his lost manuscript...
Professor Garrod was very much interested in the Rhodes Scholars who attend Oxford, but remarked that Americans found the atmosphere of leisure there different from the hustle and bustle of college life in this country. He said...
Professor Garrod edited the Oxford Book of Latin Verse in 1912. He is the author of numerous books of criticism, and the editor of several editions of verse, both classical and modern. At one time he was editor of the Journal of Philology...