Word: leverett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Matthiessen's resignation leaves only three of the original seven head tutors still occupying their positions. They are: Allan Evans '24, Leverett; R. G. Noyes, Dunster; and J. A. Ross, Adams. D. V. Brown '25, head tutor of Kirkland House, resigned last month, while Mason Hammond '25 and P. S. Wild, Jr. resigned last year from their posts in Lowell and Winthrop Houses...
...Sciences, at a meeting held in the Faculty Room of University Hall. G. L. Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, and member of the Faculty since 1890, made an address and, on behalf of the Faculty, gave President Lowell a silver cup which originally belonged to John Leverett, ninth president of the University...
...executed by Edward Winslow, a famous Colonial silversmith, and came into Leverett's possession while he was president of the University, from 1707 to 1724. For over 200 years it remained the property of the Leverett family, until 1931, when it came into the possession of G. G. Gebelin, from whom it was purchased by the Faculty...
Engraved in Roman capitals is the name LEVERETT, and the maker's mark, EW, to the left of the handle. Added to this now is an inscription in Latin, composed by E. K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, and translated as follows...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell, worthy successor of Leverett,--men who filled the bowls of the ancients with new wine. Presented by the teachers of Arts and Sciences, June 13, 1933, in token of their affection...