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...Norton Professorship are Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University; Eric Maclagan, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; Heathcote Garrod, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University; Arthur M. Hind, Assistant Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in London; Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik...
...Eliot '10, well known poet and critic, will deliver his second lecture of the Year as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. He will speak on "Poetry and Criticism in the Time of Elizabeth." Professor Eliot is the sixth holder of the chair, which was held last year by Sigurthur Nordal, from the University of Iceland...
...endowed by the late C. C. Stillman '98, as a memorial to Professor Norton. The holders are chosen without regard to nationality or special field, according to the terms of the endowment, as long as they represent the literary humanities. Last year, the Chair was held by Professor Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland, who spoke on "The Spirit of Icelandic Literature...
...Leverett House luncheon at 12.45 o'clock today. Last night Dr. Hauptmann spoke at the festival in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Goethe. His son, Benvenute, will also be present along with Dr. F. W. J. Heuser of Columbia University, president Lowell, Professors Sigurthur Nordal, J. D. M. Ford, E. K. Rand Taylor Starct, and Mr. Paul Bacon. Corrupt city government precipitation two innocent younsters into prison, the girl to be held for life the boy to the hanged. There are harrowing days of suspense while the two look for evidences to clear them. There...
...older generation has always been busily engaged in telling the younger that it is leading the country to the dogs, and the younger has been as eagerly paying no attention to its elders", said Sigurthur Nordal, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, in a recent interview. "That is not by any means a novel remark as anyone will agree", he continued, "but I have noticed that Americans are even more disturbed about the idea of future degeneration than they ought to be. America, from a European stand-point is decidedly not reverting to the primeval state; perhaps some wish that...