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This new interest was noted the next year. Although Barrett Wendell had retired from teaching, English 33hf-was expanded to a full course; it was taken over by Greenough, another somewhat charismatic individual, who had headed English A and was later to become Dean of the College and the first Master of Dunster House...
...break in survey courses brought about by Perry's Emerson course was only temporary. Other survey-type courses in American literature were being added to the English Department. In 1914, "Puritanism in English and American Literature." Chester N. Greenough, the third "founder" of United States literature study here, taught that...
...this time there was an informal Big Three in the American Literature field at the University: Greenough, and Murdock, and Bliss Perry. Perry, who had made his entrance into the field at about the same time as Wendell, was quite different from his bearded colleague. Possessed of a slow deep voice, he had "nothing of the showman about him--he didn't need to have." He had, Douglas Bush recalled at Perry's death in 1954, "bright blue eyes, a slow smile, a warm and selfless concern with literature and things humane." Perry wrote one of the first favorable biographies...
Perry retired in 1930, and so the field was left to his two co-pioneers. Greenough taught a course in eighteenth-century English thought and expression; Murdock taught a course in the American Novel...
...this time Greenough had retired from active teaching, but another scholar came to fill his place. His name was Howard Mumford Jones, and he broke into U.S. literature at Harvard by teaching part of the course which he still heads, English...