Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Martha Hillard MacLeish, 91, retired educator, welfare-work leader, mother of Poet Archibald MacLeish, head of Rockford (Ill.) College (1884-88) when women's colleges were still a novelty; in Glencoe...
...first time anywhere, poet Archibald MacLeish read his newest piece yesterday afternoon before 600 as the highlight of his Morris Gray Fund poetry reading program at the New Lecture Hall...
...MacLeish's visit to Cambridge was solely for the reading, presented by the English Department. Previously this season, the Gray Fund presented Stephen Spender in a similar program...
Originally a Yale man, MacLeish received his LL.B. here in 1919. "I certainly have spent more time at Harvard since then," he declared at a Warren House tea before the reading...
Comparing Harvard's General Education program with Dartmouth's "Great issues" program which he recently keynoted, MacLeish declared he was "very interested and excited" about both. He emphasized that, unlike the Harvard plan, Dartmouth's program consists of a compulsory course which gives all undergraduates a common experience before leaving college...