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Professor Garrod carries on a pleasant tradition in setting aside an afternoon each week to meet and talk informally with men in the University. Scholars such as the Charles Eliot Norton chair brings to Cambridge have much to give which cannot find effective presentation in set lectures. The sort of education and culture which finds its highest expression in a cultivated social intercourse is admittedly more fully developed on the other side of the Atlantic than it is on this newer continent, and visiting professors can add richness and color to a college training by helping American educational institutions...
Following the example set by Professor Gilbert Murray when he held the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry in 1926-27, the new professor, Heathcote William Garrod, proposes to hold informal discussion groups for his students in his rooms, 37 Grays Hall, on Thursday afternoons at 5 o'clock, beginning Thursday, October...
While en route from Liverpool to the United States, Professor Garrod lost his accumulated lectures of five years, and has not yet recovered them. As a result he has found it necessary to begin anew his writing, in order to prepare for the Norton lectures here...
...Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry founded by C. C. Stillman '98, was first held in 1926-27 by Gilbert Murray, Requis Professor of Greek at Oxford, world famous classicist and man of letters. He was followed in 1927-28 by Professor Eric R. Maclagan, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Last year the chair was vacant...
...produces an equal and opposite reaction, and the audience laughs. That temporarily destroys the soothing effect of Janet Gaynor's voice and the generally superior acting of the cast; but before the end, peace is restored, and one is able to appreciate the picture again. Nancy Drexel and Barry Norton do well as the running mates of the other couple, and Mary Duncan, as the baroness who nearly breaks up the quartet, performs her villainies royally...