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...somewhat surprised but very much gratified to learn that Thomas Stearns Eliot has been appointed to fill the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard during the academic year of 1932-33. Cynics may remark that Mr. Eliot possesses a rare combination of qualities in that he is at once an Eliot, a Harvard graduate, and by choice, a British subject. They may add that this combination is exactly the one which would appeal to certain prejudices rooted in the academic mind. But the fact remains that he is a man of extraordinary talents and that he is, despite...
First woman chairman was Mrs. Norton of New Jersey who as head of the District of Columbia Committee became "Mayor of Washington." Good Democratic care was taken of Minnesota's Kvale, Ione Farmer Laborite. in committee assignments...
...announcement that the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry will be held next year by T. S. Eliot will undoubtedly be greeted by general enthusiasm in the University. The fact that the first American holder of the Chair will thus be a Harvard graduate is only one reason for welcoming the announcement. Both as a poet, revealing, in controversial poems like "The Waste Land" the disintegration of modern life, and as an exponent of humanism, which he offers to counteract that disintegration, Mr. Eliot is a dominant personality in contemporary letters. His position as editor of the Criterion...
There is an obvious advantage in having the Norton Chair occupied by a man who has himself contributed to the literary movement or poetic school which he describes. When, as in the present case, the lecture stands for a philosophy of letters the value of which is still in debate, the value of personal association in especially great. Harvard will welcome Mr. Eliot next year with exceptional interest...
During the War he served in France as a driver for the Norton Harjes Ambulance, ended his military career as a private at Camp Devens. In 1922 he published The Enormous Room, a novel of his experiences in a French War prison, considered by most critics one of the few important War books. He followed it in 1923 with Tulips & Chimneys, a book of poems which almost anyone could understand. Then began his soul-searching struggles with punctuation and capital letters, resulting in such volumes as XLI Poems, Is 5, & and the recently published W (Viva). He became a regular...