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...Harvard alumni magazine had a smattering of notices through the years announcing the coming lectureship, but there's hardly anything to be found there either...
Probably the first thing anybody should know about the history of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry is that there isn't any history. The official history of Harvard by Samuel Eliot Morison doesn't contain a single word about the lectureship. That's because it was founded too recently, in 1926, and for Harvard any event in the twentieth century isn't distant enough to be historical. Even E.J. Kahn's popular work, Harvard, Through Change and Through Storm, fails to mention the Norton lectures. And the Harvard archives doesn't contain a great deal of material...
...literatures" in one group and the Fine Arts and Music in another. Each year an ad hoc committee of five is appointed by Harvard's president to decide on the following year's visiting professor. Four members, three of whom are associated with the group in whose field the lectureship falls that year, and one from the other group, are chosen from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The fifth member of the committee must come from out of state. Apparently, this was Stillman's unusual method of assuring that the appointment would be a man "of international reputation...
...there was $562,000 in the endowment as of last June (more than twice the amount of the original gift), the interest of roughly $25,000 per year doesn't provide for the maximum salary of a full professor of the Faculty and for other costs incurred by the lectureship. Letting the principal lie fallow for a year seems to provide enough money for the present. But if expenses continue to rise, the Norton Chair of Poetry may suffer from even longer interludes between lectures. It seems that economic imperatives are constantly working against education, and especially against the humanities...
...Lawal's lectureship is under a joint appointment by the History of Religion department and the committee of Afro-American religious studies of the Divinity Schools...