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...ancestors arrived on the Mayflower. He learned his letters in bookish Boston, graduated at the head of his class ('82) from Harvard, taught Latin at Phillips Exeter. Thereafter for 48 years he was Kittredge of Harvard, Shakespearean and Chaucerian scholar, authority on witchcraft and Norse religion, one of the last Victorians. But above all, "Kitty" was Harvard. When he died last week, part of Harvard died with...
Kitty's English 2 (six Shakespearean plays, great chunks of which had to be memorized) was one of Harvard's hardest courses and its best show. Kitty tolerated no coughing or sniffling during his lectures. Once, halfway through, he coughed himself. He pulled himself together, said, "I am sorry, gentlemen, I cannot go on," and marched out. He lectured by the hour on single lines of Shakespeare, missed not a syllable of the Bard's meaning...
...Gentlemen," he told his students, "I am not only the greatest living Shakespearean scholar, but the greatest student of Chaucer, also." To pedants surprised at his lack of a Ph.D., he retorted: "Who would examine me?" Once he went to Oxford to look up an obscure point of Shakespearean scholarship, was told: "There is only one man who can tell you that. He is a Harvard professor and his name is Kittredge...
Despite continuing headaches, Traffic Victim Fritz Kreisler was able to leave his bed for a few minutes each day, listened to symphonies on the radio....Massive Hendrik Willem van Loon (The Story of Mankind) went to work for the Government, boosting defense bonds....Shakespearean Maurice Evans became a full-fledged American citizen....A daughter was born to Radio Songstress Benay Venuta and Armand S. Deutsch....James Aloysius Farley, 53, celebrated his birthday at a Giants-Dodgers ball game: the Dionne Quintuplets, 7, celebrated at home...
...foremost Shakespearean scholars in the country, "Kitty" aptly settled the "who wrote Shakespeare" question by remarking, "Certainly I'll admit Bacon wrote Shakespeare if someone will tell me who wrote Bacon...