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...following article describing Harvard traditions was written especially for the Crimson by W. C. Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History...
...Harvard's curious and celebrated faculty, none is more distinguished than Professor Bliss Perry, incumbent of the Francis Lee Higginson Chair of English Literature. He it is who gives the famed course, English 41, which most Harvardmen remember for the lecturer's reference to Gabriele D'Annunzio. In this perennial discourse, Pedagog Perry tells his students that once, while lying ill in Europe, he undertook to read all of the stormy Italian poet's work. He concludes: "At the end of which time, gentlemen, I came to the decision that D'Annunxio has a dirty mind." Harvardmen were sorry...
...Harvard's curious and celebrated faculty, none is more distinguished than Professor Bliss Perry, incumbent of the Francis Lee Higginson Chair of English Literature. He it is who give: the famed course, English 41, which most Harvardmen remember for the lecturer's reference to Gabriele D'Annunzio. In this perennial discourse, Pedagog Perry tells his students that once, while lying ill in Europe, he undertook to read all of the stormy Italian poet's work. He concludes: "At the end of which time, gentlemen, I came to the decision that D'Annunzio has a dirty...
Professor Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, and Professor Leo Wiener, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, will assume the rank of Professor Emeritus in June, according to an announcement made at University Hall, yesterday. Both professors are rounding out teaching careers of over 30 years...
Perry graduated from Williams College in 1881, taught there and in Princeton University, and later assumed the editorship of the Atlantic Monthly in 1889. In 1907 he became a professor of English at Harvard and in 1926 was appointed first incumbent of the Higginson chair. He is the author of many books of criticism and editor of a number of volumes of prose and poetry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and other learned societies. During 1909-10 he was Harvard Lecturer at the University...