Word: schofield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iceland as the fifth lecturer to hold the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry will attract general attention to a field of literature which at present is little known except to scholars. It is perhaps especially fortunate that Professor Nordal should come to Harvard following the addition of the Schofield collection of books in Widener, since they might be more fully appreciated in the light of his lectures...
...appointment of Professor Nordal comes at a particularly opportune moment, following as it does close upon the announcement of the gift of a notable collection of Icelandic Literature to the University Library by Mrs. William H. Schofield of Peterborough, New Hampshire. The presentation was made by Mrs. Schofield on April 6, the birthday of her husband, Professor Schofield, late Chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard...
...Cornell curator also spoke of the excellent gathering of occasional and obituary poems which form part of the Schofield gift. He said that he had talked with the former owner of the collection, who informed him that the collection of periodicals was almost complete...
...Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, highest Naval officer afloat, is Admiral Frank Herman Schofield, whose appointment, announced last week, will become effective in September. Born 62 years ago at Jerusalem, N. Y., his home now is at Penn Van, N. Y. In 1898, eight years after his graduation from Annapolis, he was executive officer of the Hawk in the Spanish-American War. During the War he was on Admiral Sims's staff in London. Four years ago he was a member of the U. S. delegation to the abortive Three-Power Naval Conference at Geneva. Small, bespectacled, suggesting...
...Admiral Schofield relieves Rear Admiral Jehu Valentine Chase, appointed last week to the General Board. Sandy-haired, smiling Vice Admiral Richard Henry Leigh succeeds Admiral Schofield as commander of the Battle Force. Vice Admiral Arthur L. Willard was made commander of the Scouting Force. Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn commander of the Submarine Force...