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Harvard has long emphasized the history of art, music, and English rather than painting, performance, or writing. Professors, moreover, are almost always scholars rather than creative artists. Occasional lectures by such men as Shahn, Robert Frost, Edwin Muir, and T.S. Eliot, however, have been both informative and encouraging. If the University would establish more visiting lectureships for artists as opposed to scholars, students would benefit from the different point of view, if only as a contrast with that of the scholar. Besides a possibly finer sensitivity to human problems which the mature artist attains through the creative experience, he offers...
Last year's Charles Eliot Norton lecturer was Edwin Muir, the Scottish poet and critic. His general topic was "The Estate of Poetry." In the preceding years the lectureship was held by T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost and Igor Stravinsky...
Ford, whose appointment is for a five year period, will succeed Walter Muir Whitehill in Lowell. Whitehill, who has served as senior tutor since the Burr Plan was inaugurated in 1952, has been appointed as lecturer in History. Whitebill has remained as director of the Boston Athenaeum while serving as senior tutor. He will continue in that post in the future and as an associate of Lowell House...
Meeting in London with the colony's Governor Sir Patrick Muir Renison, Britain's Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd agreed to a new plan that would pour about $58,240,000 into social and economic development in the next five years. The specific points covered by the plan included completion of the 130,000-acre Boerasirie irrigation and drainage project, rebuilding the main road along the seacoast from the Surinam border to Georgetown through rich sugar-and rice-growing areas, completion of a 4,000-unit housing scheme, and rural electrification. More than half the cash...
...Criticism was salutary while it remained only an influence; but it has now become a sanctioned method, and has used this sanction to usurp power," Muir continued. He charged that the method was often used to find so many possible meanings in words or phrases of a poem, it concealed the principal meaning...