Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointment of Chauncey Brewster Tinker as next year's Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has captured undergraduate fancy. The search for a man of unusual gifts to occupy this unique position--never an easy task--has ended most happily...
...selecting Professor Tinker Harvard has chosen an alien genius of undoubted popularity. Harvard has never evinced any false modesty over the worth of her own sons. Through the Norton Professorship, however, she is able to ward off the spring fever of complacency with a salutary drink now and then from the waters of outlying springs. This tonic is of considerable concern to Bostonians, as well as students, and is generally offered to the public. Especially since the professorship is thus turned to a popular purpose must the choice be a popular...
Professor Tinker has been honored by Yale ever since 1903. His greatest work has concerned Dr. Johnson and his circle. Mr. Tinker's subject has not yet been announced, but it is to be hoped that, although his own mid-eighteenth century may be too prosy for the purpose of poetic lectures, he will manage to distill a little of the dry Boswell-Johnsonian wisdom into his remarks. There is every possibility that the S. R. O. sign will be hung out for Mr. Tinker as it was for Robert Frost...
Under the terms of the professorship, Professor Tinker must deliver at least six public lectures on poetry during the year. The professorship was established in 1925 under a $200,000 gift by the late Charles Chauncey Stillman '98, and is an annual appointment to a man "of high distinction and international reputation." Previous holders of the chair have been Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot '10, Gilbert Murray, Lawrence Binyon, and others, the present holder is Johnny A. E. Roosval, professor of the History of Art at the University of Stockholm...
Professor Tinker, B.A. Yale '99, M.A. '01, Ph.D. '02, has been on the faenlty of the Department of English at Yale since 1903. He is the author of "Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney," 1911, "The Salon and English Letters," 1915; "Yound Boswell," 1922; "Nature's Simple Plan, 1922; and "The good Estate of Poetry," 1929; and is the editor of "Letters of James Boawell...