Word: norton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original schedule of eight lectures, he will add a ninth. This lecture, which will be on "Drama," will be inserted into the list tonight at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. Professor Murray is giving the lecture in his capacity of first occupant of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry...
...Kelly Clapp, Herman l.t. r.t. Graves. Delavelle Fox l.g. r.g. Cook, Moody Turney e. c. Byshe Cushing. Foster. Hodges r.g. l.g. Moody, Cook Mulford. r.t. l.t. Ennis Allen. Lone r.e. l.e. Morton. Sears Beard. q.b. q.b. Pruyn Barbee l.h.b. r.h.b. F. Eaton Sack. Sawyer. Lane r.h.b. l.h.b. Norton Taft. Farnsworth f.b. f.b. S. Eaton
Finally, Professor Murray spoke of his occupancy of the Poetry Chair, paying high tribute to Charles Eliot Norton, few whom the chair is named "Professor Norton had the spark of true inspiration." He declared, "I had the pleasure of meeting him, distinguished and courteous with a taste that was classical to an exquisite degree. He had a love for things that did not follow the fashion. It is most fitting that his memory should be honored in the gift dedicated to the attempt to bring home to others the eternal beauty upon which his own eyes were always fixed...
...very keenly feel my responsibilities in endeavoring to interpret poetry as Charles Eliot Norton conceived of it. By poetry he meant the spirit present in art, in music, and in all life; not quite out of the sight, not quite out of earshot, but unheard amid the way of the would and the grinding of our own egotisms...
Seniors Morton, I.e., Lloyd. Lt.: Moody, I.g; Byahe, c.: Cook, r.g: Ennis, r,t: Graves, r.e.: Pruyn. Q.b.: Norton, ih.b.: F. Eaton, rh.b.: S. Eaton...