Word: poggiolis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusual group in their own right: Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Kenneth B. Murdock, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Alfred North Whitchead have been past members. The present group of Senior Fellows is led by Crane Brinton and includes Frederick L. Hisaw, Harry T. Levin, Arthur Darby Nock, Renato Poggioli and Edward M. Purcell...
Other recipients from the University were: John T. Dunlop, professor of Economics Howard W. Emmons, professor of Engineering Sciences, Elmer D. Merrill, Arnold Professor of Botany, Emeritus, Renato Poggioli, professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, John H. Welsh, associate professor of Zoology, and Ernest E. Williams, instructor in History...
...course, Social Relations 152, in Emerson 211; his lectures are always interesting and original. Probably the most interesting course given in the History department this term can be heard in Harvard 4: Owen's British History since 1814. Owen's lectures are gems and the material is consistently interesting. Poggioli in Comp. Lit. 102 (Sever 7) and Kluckhohn in Anthropology 1b (Geographical Institute Auditorium). Poggioli, who is one of the most respected scholars and teachers in the University, calls his course "Ideas of Tragedy" and uses a broad historical approach to the subject. Kluckhohn knows almost everything there...
...leave of absence. Since one of these was needed by graduate students, it has been more or less filled by a last-minute change in may own plans; and through the good will of the Slavic Department, next term we are offering a new middle-group course by Professor Poggioli, Comparative Literature 102 ("Ideas of Tragedy"). It might also be said that several of the courses in Humanities, as well as many scattered through the Divisions of Ancient and Modern Languages, are comparative literature in essence if not in title...
...addition to writing many articles and other publications abroad, Poggioli is the author of "The Idea of Utopia" and "Theory of the Advance-guard Art," soon to be published in English versions...