Word: hillyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Music at the Gardner Museum: Raphael Hillyer, Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, 3:00pm...
After my freshman year I met the man who, of all the Harvard faculty, made the greatest impression on me and my later career. He was my tutor, Francis Wayne MacVeagh. Although he never gained the fame of such contemporaries as Robert Hillyer and Theodore Spencer, he guided me to a true and lasting love of fine writing and he did it by the casual and then unconventional method of simply spreading a dozen or more books in front of me, saying. "Take them along, read any that interest you and ignore the rest. "From Francis learned to love oddities...