Word: gurney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balch, instructor in English and tutor in the Division of Modern Languages, will receive a grant for the investigation of English plays and playwrights in France during the eighteenth century. G. L. Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, will receive a part of the assignment for use in connection with his work in collecting the ballads and chanties written by J. M. Carpenter...
...Ballad Books and Ballad Men" is the title of 327 page work of Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt. The author puts forth in this volume a survey of ballad men, from Sir Walter Scott to Francis James Child '46, who was the predecessor of G.L. Kittredge '82 as Gurney Professor of English Literature. Two chapters are devoted to the contemporaneous story of Scandinavian balladry, particularly in its relation to the labors of Child. Appendixes present a large store of illuminating documents, hitherto unpublished, from the correspondence of Child and the Danish editor Grunting...
Associates of Lowell House who will be guests tonight are as follows: Alfred North Whitehead, Professor of Philosophy: Edward Kennard Rand '94, Professor of Latin; Roger Bigelow Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History: Archibald Thompson Davison '05, Professor of Music: Robert Pierpont Blake. Associate Professor of History and Director of the Widener Library: and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory...
...House Week Work Done. The House of Representatives last week: ¶ Passed the Legislative Appropriation Bill, amended to provide a marble base for the Washington Statue of the late Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon. ¶ Accepted the conference report on a bill to finance Gold Star Mothers' pilgrimages (see p. 13). ¶ Adopted a resolution requiring canned products below a certain grade to be distinctively labeled...
...Charles Homer Haskins, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, delivered the same lectures in 1923. These were established in 1916 by a trust fund of $10,000 with the intention of calling only upon men with a definite contribution to some phase of science or culture...