Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first lecture of the series which Gilbert Murray is delivering as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has been given and, thus, there is officially attached to Harvard University with its manifold heritages of custom and convention--a new tradition. For no doubt can exist as to the future of this greatest gift of one who was an ever generous alumnus of Harvard College Year after year, men who have established a round claim to literary accomplishment of that kind most nearly approaching Longinus' definition of the sublime, will give of their personality their particular genius, to the often stressed...
...first public lecture of the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard will be given tonight in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock. Professor Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University, is the first incumbent of the professorship established by the Late C. C. Stillman '98, of New York City. His first lecture will be on the subject of "Tradition...
However that may be, "Tradition on Poetry" will be the subject of a lecture given in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock tonight by Professor Gilbert Murray, and to hear the incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry is an opportunity no vagabond should miss...
Late in August, Digger Gilbert T. Brewer returned from a trip down the Mississippi Valley, to Mexico City and South America via Panama, with extensive evidence of Norse expeditions having penetrated this continent thoroughly in pre-Columbus days. Some of Mr. Brewer's evidence: 1) Indian legends of huge serpents appearing on Lake Ontario. (Norse war galleys had low hulls, dragon prows, the sides hung with shields, like scales. 2) An Indian legend of a chief battling a serpent, slaying him and wearing his skin. (The Norsemen wore coats of chain mail.) 3) Disappearance of the Mound-builder civilization...
Professor Gilbert Murray, emminent classicist and Regins Professor of Greek at Oxford University, who was named the first incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton chair of Poetry, will give his initial public lecture next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre...