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...authority on a poet so peculiarly. Anglo-Saxon as Shakespeare. These same people, however, take it for granted that men of northern descent are competent to treat the Romance literatures. Aside from the great Teutonic students of the classics, one can still find men like Lowell, Longfellow, or Grandgent, whose names are inseparably connected with so typical a national figure as Dante. And Dante's influence on his country has been as great or greater than that of Shakespeare on England. The fact is that the world of culture is bounded only by the limits of man himself. Furthermore...
...Foote '97, E. H. Warren '95, W. M. Cole, and M. W. DeWulf on leave of absence for the whole year; Professors W. C. Abbort, R. L. Hawkins '03, W. E. Hocking '01, and W. J. Osterhout for the first half year; and Professors C. H. Grandgent '83, W. B. Munro '99, E. C. Moore '03, W. Z. Ripley, and K. G. T. Webster '93 for the second half year...
...annual award of honorary degrees, like the English New Year's Rank List, is an opportunity to recognize genuine greatness. This year's list is perhaps typical:--the Canadian Prime Minister for his honorable work of government; Professor Grandgent for his outstanding scholarship and talent; Mr. Morgan for his philanthropy, his loyalty to Harvard, his continual encouragement of what is best in the arts; Bishop Slattery for his services to religion;--these and the others each represent one of the accomplishments toward which the University tries to direct its students. The honorary degree is the discriminating praise of a wise...
Sabbatical leave of absence has been granted to Professor H. W. Foote for the year 1923-24 and to Professors C. H. Grandgent and W. Z. Ripley for the second half of the same year
...preparation unassisted; and they make his study something more than the mere reading of taxis. Next year, the series should not only be repeated, but extended to include others of the recommended authors, such as Sophocoies, Aristotle, and Cervantes. The names of this year's speakers -- Palmer, Band, Grandgent, Lowes--set a precedent which it would be difficult to improve...