Word: poet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Tagore is the most notable poet and philosopher of the Orient of today. In this country, his lectures have been enthusiastically received at a number of universities, but in England he has achieved even greater success than in America. His complete command of English greatly enhances the effectiveness of his lectures...
...Beta Kappa Society will hold its annual Commencement meeting on Monday, June 16. The orator of the occasion will be Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers, S.T.D., '99, of Cambridge; Mr. George Edward Woodberry '77, of Beverly has been chosen poet...
...rare and valuable picture of Geoffrey Chaucer, the English poet, which was bequeathed to the Harvard College Library by Professor Charles Eliot Norton, has recently been placed on exhibition in the Fogg Museum. The portrait was at Llanshaw Court, in Gloucester-shire, for more than three centuries. It bears a close resemblance to the only known authentic portrait of Chaucer, the miniature in Occleve's "De regimine principum," written in 1411-12, and also to a later full-length portrait in another British Museum manuscript. It has been known in recent years as the Seddon portrait. Mr. James Loeb presented...
...Rabindranath Tagore of Calcutta, India, delivered a lecture on "Man's Relation to the Universe" in Emerson J yesterday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Mr. Tagore is recognized as the leading scholar and poet of his country and is the author of many plays, essays, short stories, and poems...
...Rabindranath Tagore, of Calcutta, Bengal, will lecture in Emerson F this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock on "Man's Relation to the Universe." It will be followed by a lecture tomorrow evening in Emerson A at 8 o'clock on "Brahma." Mr. Tagore is the foremost philosopher-poet of the Far East at the present day. The lectures, which are open to the University, will be delivered in English...