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Ford Tour. Two dozen of the 29 planes which started the 4,800-mi. National Air Reliability Tour of 1929 at Detroit, reached their Detroit goal in a heavy rain last week. Winner of the Edsel Ford Trophy and $2,500 cash was swarthy John Henry Livingston, 31, of Aurora, III, who flew a Wright-motored Waco biplane. Runner-up planes were (in order) : Waco, Ford, Curtiss Condor, Bellanca, Bellanca, Command-Aire, Kreider-Reisner, Spartan, Ford. Although losers yammered about the method of scoring, the Tour did disclose the characteristics of the planes in quick takeoffs, slow landings, load-carrying...
...sure that there is not another man lecturing in the United States today who would be more welcome at Oxford," said Heathcote William Garrod, the Charles Eliot Norton lecturer from Oxford at Harvard this year, discussing the appointment of John, Livingston Lowes Ph.D. '06, professor of English, who will be the first George Eastman Visiting Professor to the University of Oxford during...
Swarthmore, Pa., Oct. 30-John Livingston Lowes Ph.D. '05 professor of English at Harvard will be the first George Eastman Visiting Professor to the University of Oxford, it was announced here today by Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College and American secretary to the Rhodes trustees. Professor Lowes will lecture at Oxford during the academic year 1930-31. His appointment was officially announced in the Oxford Gazette today...
Professor John Livingston Lowes, who has been chosen to inaugurate the professorship, has been professor of English at Harvard since 1918, and was dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences during 1924-25. He is the author of many notable contributions to English scholarship and criticism, among them being "Convention and Revolt in Poetry" 1919, and "The Road to Zandau", 1927. He will lecture at Oxford in the Honour School of English Language and Literature...
...only a personal honor but an honor to the University that John Livingston Lowes has been appointed to be the first incumbent of the George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Oxford...