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Professor Eric R. D. Maclagan, Director and secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the second incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, will begin his course of ten lectures on Italian Sculpture on November 2, it has recently been announced...
Charles Eliot Norton was one of the most famous characters of "old Cambridge." The unique and forceful personality that made him one of the greatest of nineteenth century teachers and a triumphant torchbearer in the elevation of fine arts to a high place not only in educational curricula but in public esteem put his name among those of Harvard's best-known sons, where it will long be secure. Changing Cambridge has long since swept away "Norton's Woods," and not even the name remains to designate the residential district across Kirkland Street. But Harvard, and the educational and artistic...
Foremost among the books announced for late fall publication by the Harvard University Press, many written by Harvard University Press, many written by Harvard men, is the publication of the first series of lectures given last year by Professor Gilbert Murray under the Charles Eliot Norton Foundation. This is entitled "The Classical Tradition in Poetry," and will be published late in October...
Professor Eric R. D. Maclagen, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, has been chosen as the incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry for the coming year...
Succeeding Gilbert Murray of Oxford, Professor Maclagen is the second occupant of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair, founded by the late C. C. Stillman '98. The holders of the chair are not confined to literary forms of poetry alone, but may treat music, painting, sculpture, architecture, or any branch of poetic art. Last year Professor Murray treated "The Classical Tradition in English Poetry...