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...Parlor Bolsheviki find no hotbeds of political agitation within the walls of American universities," according to the views expressed by William Allan Neilson, A. M. '96, former Professor in the University and now President of Smith College, in an interview given out recently...
...this year. Professor G. P. Baker '89 will return for full work in his courses on the drama, and Professor John L. Lowes of Washington University, St. Louis, the new professor of English at the University, will give many of the courses formerly conducted by Professor W. L. Neilson, who resigned from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last year to become president of Smith College. Among those remaining for war work in Washington is Professor K. G. T. Webster '93, director of the Summer School and assistant professor of English, who will serve in the Personnel Division...
John Livingston Lowes, professor of English and dean of the College of Washington University, St. Louis, has been appointed Professor of English at the University. His appointment is made to fill the professorship left vacant by the election of Professor Neilson to the presidency of Smith College...
...announcement that Professor Cestre of the University of Bordeaux will be at Harvard this year comes as a sort of solace to students concentrating in English. The loss of Professor Neilson is too great to be appreciated immediately, and there are those who had planned out their courses during the last few years who will fell his leaving keenly. It was not because he was an international figure, but because he was one of the most delightful men in guiding one on literary paths...
Thus the advent of a Frenchman distinguished in the study of English can only be hailed with great satisfaction. Curiously enough Professor Cestre is to give in English a course on the romantic poets. It was the same subject which in English 24 Professor Neilson made such a pleasure for all those who entered his class. The entire University extends a hearty welcome to Professor Cestre, but the English students are of fering prayers of thanksgiving to the muses and fates in so conniving that such a man should come to Harvard at exactly the right time...