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...announcement in January 1930 that Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, would retire at the end of the year didn't create the stir that a similar one about the great Charles T. Copeland had a few years before, but nonetheless it was the end of an era. Perry was the type of teacher that his students seldom forgot, and years afterward they could remember the inspiration received from his courses. In May, the CRIMSON sadly noted the loss of "the human quality which he never sacrificed for pedagogical catchword or scholastic obscurity, his ability to give life...
Invariably, there are two or three outstanding faculty members nominated and duly approved by the Board of Overseers. This year, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor emeritus, would seem to stand only a fair chance. Odds are somewhat better on Douglas W. Horton, Dean of the rising Divinity School, or traditional favorite Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor, who retires this year...
...identity by continuing his family's tradition of Scholarship. Walter Bradford Cannon, his wife's father, was a noted medical researcher and professor of Physiology at Harvard. His mother is related to George Bancroft, a Jacksonian politician and outstanding historian of his day. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. Francis Lee Higginson Professor, emeritus, is considered America's first great social historian. Before his son returned to Harvard, the elder Schlesinger lectured on "The Social and Intellectual History of the United States," but after his son joined the Faculty, the course was divided in half. Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., taught the social history...
Rhinelander, the third head of General Education, was succeeded last May by Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. Rhinelander headed the program for three years and gave one of the elementary courses, Humanities...
Paul H. Buck, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of the University Libraries, has received the Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Western Reserve University...