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Harvard University - LoveToKnow 1911 (2049 words) |
 | The former, as founder and patron, Ion regarded Harvard as a state institution, controlling or aidin it through the legislature and the overseers; but the contr versies and embarrassments incident to legislative action prove prejudicial to the best interests of the college, and its organ connexion with the state was wholly severed in 1866. |
| Longfellow's professorship at Harvard identified im with it rather than with Bowdoin; Oliver Wendell Holmes 'as professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard in 1847382; and Lowell, a Harvard alumnus, was Longfellow's successor in 1855-1886 as Smith, Professor of the French and Spanish languages and literatures. |
| In Petersham, Massachusetts, is the Harvard Forest, about 2000 acres of hilly)oded country with a stand in 1908 of ro,000,000 ft. B.M. of merchantable timber (mostly white pine); this forest was given the university in 1907, and is an important part of the equipmt of the division of forestry. |
| Four Generations of Oral Literary Studies at Harvard University (11908 words) |
| Harvard University is today internationally known and respected as a center for the collection and study of oral literature. |
| The study of oral literature had begun at Harvard as the personal preoccupation of one man, and as such it was one of the oldest foci of intellectual effort in the modern University. |
| Leaving aside the professorial personalities who have given their genius and energy to oral literary studies at Harvard, it is possible to describe the academic tradition which they have created as a tradition of successful research a series of basic discoveries, each discovery laying the ground for the next one. |
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