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After twenty-one years of teaching at Harvard, John Livingston Lowes has given his last lecture, Yesterday at noon, he walked into Sever 11, ascended the rostrum, and gave a short talk on Robert Herrick, the seventeenth century lyricist. Thus with the gay lines of the poet, he wrote "Finis" to his long career as one of the foremost scholars of his time a career that is remarkable in its contribution to learning. Dr. Lowes, apart from having gained invaluable experience in colleges throughout the country, has written many books on English Literature. His "The Road to Xanadu...
Concluding 20 years of teaching here at Harvard, John L. Lowes, Ph.D. 1909, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English and Senior Fellow in the Society of Fellows, will give his last lecture today in Sever 11 at 2 o'clock...
Ballots for Senior Class Elections and for Junior Album Elections will be placed today in Widener and in Emerson, Harvard, and Sever Halls as well as in the House dining halls...
...present Hunt is employed as an office and lecture building, but the Public Administration offices it now houses will soon be transferred to the Littauer Center, the Regional Planning offices could probably be transferred to Robinson Hall, and the Naval Science classes might well be conducted in Sever. Thus although some outlay would obviously be necessary--for transfers, alterations, and equipment--the total cost should not be prohibitive; and possibly the French and Italian governments would be willing to contribute. In the end, such integration of Latin cultures would broaden their appeal and inject into their study a measure...
Behind it lies a story that can be duplicated wherever labor has organized. Once upon a time, the drawers of water and others who did menial jobs for Harvard were not treated in accordance with the liberal doctrines being taught in Sever and Emerson. There were even law suits, and the result was a lot of bad publicity for the University and a distrust on the part of employees which survived the advent of a more benign policy...