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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bond Vendors | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...fashions. The Pops Were started 45 years ago, patterned after the Bilse Concerts in Berlin where people ate, drank and smoked while listening to music. Such a scheme was highly adventuresome for Boston in the '80s but the musicians imported for the Symphony by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson needed more than their winter engagements to support their families. They were tired, too, of ponderous scores and strangely enough they found Society in the same mood. The Popular Concerts, soon shortened to Pops, caught on. It was considered Bohemian and ever so smart to roll up to Music Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pops | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...present academic year draws to a close, change in an important Professorship gives its closing a special meaning. Since 1926 Professor Bliss Perry has held the Francis Lee Higginson Professorship of English Literature. As editor and teacher, the passing years have found him well-liked in his success; as professor emeritus, future years will find him well-remembered in his retirement. A scholar as well as a speaker often inspiring, he brought the best of himself into the classroom, and left the touch of his kindly, whimsical personality upon the great men of letters whom he interpreted. His students will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLISS PERRY, EMERITUS | 5/2/1930 | See Source »

...next incumbent of the Francis Lee Higginson Professorship thus enters upon a tradition which will not soon be forgotten by Harvard men. It is fitting that Professor John Livingston Lowes should be called upon to continue that tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLISS PERRY, EMERITUS | 5/2/1930 | See Source »

...service by Willard Learoyd Sperry, dean of the Theological School. Following this ceremony, there will be the customary reception at the President's home. Tuesday, June 17, is Class Day, at which time the Senior Chapel service is held. This service will be conducted by Bliss Perry. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. At the Class Day exercises, being held as usual on Sanders Theatre, Dean Sperry will conduct the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRAINER TO ACT AS HEAD JUNIOR USHER AT COMMENCEMENT | 4/30/1930 | See Source »

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