Word: norton
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Kipling's handwritten copy of "Recessional" composed in 1897, reveals that the author had originally intended entitling the poem "After." This copy was retrieved from Kipling's wastebasket by the late Sara Norton, of Cambridge, daughter of Charles Eliot Norton '46, and friend of the Kiplings. Miss Norton was visiting the Kiplings in 1897 at the time Kipling was writing "Recessional" and when he threw a draft of the poem into the wastebasket, she recovered the page, and the author allowed her to keep...
Increased demand for city and regional "planners" was the chief subject discussed in the annual report of the Harvard School of City Planning, released yesterday. The report was prepared by Henry V. Hubbard '97, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and chairman of the school's council...
...Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, which he will occupy, was established under a gift of $200,000 made in 1925 by Charles C. Stillman '98. The money was given in memory of Charles Eliot Norton '46, professor of the History of Art. The holder of the chair must be a man of high distinction and international reputation, under the terms of the gift...
Robert Frost, America's distinguished poet, winner of two Pulitzer prizes, and showered with honorary degrees from all over the country, has been appointed Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the half year beginning this February...
Under the terms of the Norton Chair of Poetry, he will deliver publicly not less than six lectures on poetry during the spring, the dates as yet undetermined...