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Charles Chauncey Stillman, Class of 1898, gave the University a $200,000 bequest in 1925 with the idea of founding the chair. According to the terms of the gift, the University was to choose each year "without limits of nationality, from men of high distinction and preferably of international reputation," a lecturer on poetry. But this didn't mean poetry in the narrow sense of verse, meter and rhyme. The bequest explicitly states that "Poetry shall be interpreted in the broadest sense, including, together with Verse, all poetic expression in Language, Music, or the Fine Arts, under which term Architecture...
...total of 11 persons went to UHS yesterday complaining of stomach cramps, nausea and other symptoms and four were admitted to Stillman infirmary last night, Wacker said...
Patricia Wu '78, taken by the Harvard police to UHS on a stretcher yesterday morning and in Stillman last night, said last night she had eaten just one shrimp and one scallop and became "horribly sick" early yesterday morning. Wu also said she ate around...
...Stillman's story on the Russian Research Center printed in your issue of Friday, March 14 contains at least one inaccuracy. I could not have said or implied that there had been at any time any connection between the C.L.A. and our Center, because in fact there never was any. As I said over the telephone, our Center has not had the slightest connection with any intelligence gathering organization, nor has it undertakes any classified project. Since its beginning the Center has been and remains a purely scholarly research institution. Adam B. Ulam Director of the Russian Research Center
...stand by my story and the accuracy of the quotes. --Mark Stillman...