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Tonight Dr. Henriquez Urena will speak in Spanish on the subject "El Sentido de la Cultura Espanola" ("The Meaning of Spanish Culture...
...Pedro Henriquez Urena, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will give his first public lectures at Harvard tonight at Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock in a special meeting sponsored by the Spanish Club in commemoration of Columbus Day and in the interests of inter-American goodwill...
...also announced today that Dr. Henriquez Urena's series of public lectures in English, as Norton Professor, will begin on November 6. The subject of this series will be "The Search for Expression: Literary and Artistic Creation in Spanish America...
Commenting on Urena's appointment, the University stated, "The appointment of Urena is not only a recognition of the important place of South America in the modern world, but it also upholds the traditional distinction that is expected of the lecturer." Previous holders of the chair have ranged from the American poet, Robert Frost, to the Slavic musician, Stravinski...
Instrumental in furthering education in his own country, in Mexico, and in Argentina, Urena has hold the post of general superintendent of education in the Dominican Republic and that of director-general of public education in the state of Puebla in Mexico. He was also the Dominican delegate to the University conference at Montevideo...