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Completing a span of seventeen years of valuable teaching and research at Harvard, Wilbur Cortez Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History has announced his resignation from the faculty. Universally recognized as one of the outstanding authorities on British history, Professor Abbott's History 42 has been one of the most valuable courses in the field. His interest and deep study of English history of the Seventeenth Century has resulted in the publication of "A Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell," and "Adventures in Reputation...
...ordinary existence that occupy the thoughts of petty men, men who lack the ability to bestride the world like a Colossus in their appointed tasks of human endeavor. A figure who has led the world in his interpretation of the Romantic poets, for instance, is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. But John Livingston Lowes displays the most lovable trait of complete indifference to the Harvard catalogue, and he has from time to time announced in his lectures that he cannot remember the names and numbers of the courses in English, despite the fact that he holds...
Broadcasts scheduled for next month are: "The Labor Movement in the United States, 1865-1900", Paul H. Buck, assistant professor of History, April 6; "The Noblest Monument of English Prose", John L. Lowes, Higginson Professor of English Literature, April 13; "The Great Masters of Baroque and Rococo Music", Dr. Hugo Leichtentirtt '94, April 14; "Astronomical Tests of the Theory of Relativity", Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, April 20; "The Romantic and Impressionistic Aspects of Landscape Painting in Music", Dr. Leichtentirtt, April 21; "Government Regulation of Industry", Edward S. Mason, associate professor of Economics, April...
...Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion to the Society of Fellows increases the number from seven to eight. The other six members are President Conant, President Lowell, Dean George David Birkhoff '04, of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Perkins Professor of Mathematics; John Livingston Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature; Lawrence J. Henderson '98, professor of Biological Chemistry, who is the Chairman; and Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History...
...first issue of the Magenta, ancestor of the Crimson. On the evening of January 25, 1873, ten members of the Class of 1874 assembled in the rooms of Mr. Cirrk. These were Eugene Nelson Aston, Samuel Belcher Clarke. Thomas Corlies, Frank Child Faulkner, George it win Haven, Edward Higginson, Charles Austin Mackintosh, Henry Childs Merwin, and Calvin Proctor Sampson...