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...Medina Cram Course. At Columbia Law School, unrelenting effort began to pay off. At the end of his second year he passed his bar examination, married Ethel Hillyer of East Orange, N.J., and set up housekeeping on a $1,500 gift from his father. When he graduated, Ethel, through a friend, got him a job as law clerk at $8 a week in the office of Manhattan Attorney Charles Tuttle. He supplemented that by teaching law at Columbia, and began his "cram courses" for bar examinations which were to become famous in New York legal circles. Nearly...
...Harvard English department, which approved the selection, MacLeish seemed an ideal choice. As a Pulitzer Prizewinning poet (Conquistador, 1932), MacLeish lives up to the latter-day Boylston tradition of creative rather than scholastic talent as exemplified by the last two holders of the chair: Poet Robert S. Hillyer and Poet Theodore Spencer, who died in January. He will receive upward of $10,000 a year, plus the legendary right to pasture a cow in Harvard Yard. To MacLeish, the job will mean one more turn to a career that has already covered a catalogue of callings, ranging from gentleman-farmer...
Lawrence, class poet of '48, spent some time before entering Harvard under the tutelage of Jose Garcia Villa, who instructed him in "the craft of poetry." Hawkes, the only married man among the editors, was influenced by Robert H. Hillyer '17 in his early years at Harvard. Rogers has received some writing training from John Dos Passos, whom he has known since childhood...
...Among the authors of the report: Harvard's Robert S. Hillyer and Theodore Morrison, Princeton's Donald A. Stauffer, Columbia's Lionel Trilling, Yale's Dean William C. DeVane, Wesleyan's President Victor L. Butterfield, Hunter's President George N. Shuster, Kenyon's President Gordon K. Chalmers...
...Harvard, properly impressed, Lend-Leased him as a "visiting professor" from Cambridge. Last week, Harvard, which has been increasingly impressed by Ted Spencer since then, appointed him, at 44, to the prestigious, 140year-old Boylston Professorship of "Rhetoric & Oratory (first chairholder: John Quincy Adams; last: Poet Robert S. Hillyer...