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Heathcote William Garrod, Professor of Poetry at Oxford who has been appointed to the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry here, expects to begin his public lectures in the near future, as soon as he is able to complete his plans for the series of six which are customarily given at Harvard...
While en route from Liverpool to New York Professor Garrod lost his accumulated lectures of five years, and he is finding it necessary to write anew upon his subjects for the Norton series...
...most notable visitor is undoubtedly Heathcote William Garrod, Professor of Poetry at Oxford since 1923 as he will hold the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, endowed by the late C. C. Stillman '98 four years ago. This chair was not filled last year owing to the fact that University authorities were slow in seeking a man to fill it. Professor Garrod is believed to be the equal of the two previous holders of the chair, Professors Gilbert Murray and Eric M. D. Maclagan...
Professor Garrod at present is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and also is a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In 1917 he visited the United States as a member of the Special Labour Mission, and in the following year held the portfolio of the Assistant Secretary of the Ministry of Reconstruction in England...
...deference of the incumbency until a man worthy of it may be named goes toward the creation of a precedent that will be permanent in its standard of excellence. In such light must this year's vacancy be regarded. And the advent next fall of Professor Garrod, editor of the Oxford Book of Latin Verse, must fully compensate to those who still remain to hear, for the present want...