Who was on the faculty in the Department of English at Harvard College, 1950

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 25 Aug 2005 14:15 PDT

Please read this article, which reveals the names of some (if not all)
Faculty members from the Harvard English department in 1949-1950.
Please let me know if this sufficiently answers your question in the
absence of a more revealing source.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY GAZETTE
'Remembering Harvard, 1949-1950'
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/06.04/RememberingHarv.html

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 25 Aug 2005 14:26 PDT

I consider this excerpt to be the most revealing:

?John Nash Douglas Bush?s class on seventeenth century poetry. I
savored his elegant, scholarly manner, the quiet patient way he
scanned text and answered students? questions. I smiled at the way we
were seated alphabetically in class. His son, Geoffrey, was a student
in the class, and I was seated next to John Kerr, a young actor, whom
I also saw one night in a Brattle Theater production of Shakespeare?s
Twelfth Night in which he played opposite Betty Field.

Herschel Clay Baker taught Restoration and 18th century drama. I
remember his Texas drawl and the way he pronounced Yale -- like
?Yawlie?. A few years later, when Yale started its DFA program in
drama, I transferred into it as one of its pioneer students, and
Baker?s valedictory was, ?Have a good time at Yawlie.?

Legendary teachers could be glimpsed on campus. Samual Eliot Morison,
pink-cheeked and cheerful, looking for all the world like a living
Gilbert Stuart painting. Harry Levin, brilliant, urgent, thin, darting
in and out of buildings. Francis Peabody Magoun, my Anglo-Saxon
teacher, tweedily striding the steps of Widener with a covey of
students in his wake. (He was rumored never to have an office; you had
to catch him on the fly.) F.S. Matthiesson, tall, aloof, soon to be
involved in his own tragedy. Hyder Rollins, a delightful, chirpy
Southern gentleman who taught English Romantic literature and had all
his students critique one another?s work.?

HARVARD UNIVERSITY GAZETTE
'Remembering Harvard, 1949-1950'
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/06.04/RememberingHarv.html

Is that sufficient as an answer?

Tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Question by sherblau-ga on 25 Aug 2005 16:25 PDT

That's pretty good. I think it will serve my purpose, especially if it
will save me money to end the search here. Additional names could be
additionally helpful however. So my question is whether the $25
expenditure I authorized is a minimum as well as a maximum charge.  If
it's a minimum and additional searching might yield additional names
without adding to my cost, I'd ask for some attempt to get me some
additional names. Otherwise I'll settle for what I've got. Thanks.

SherBlau

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 25 Aug 2005 17:05 PDT

Dear sherblau-ga:

The $25 you specified is your minimum, however you may add a gratuity
as large as you like at the end of our transaction to reflect your
impression of the service provided. That of course is optional and you
are under no obligation to pay anything above the amount of your
original offering if you choose not to.

Before I claim the fee, in response to your affirmation that the
information provided suits your purposes, I will search a bit more to
see if anything else might be out there. Back shortly.

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 25 Aug 2005 17:23 PDT

I should point out that as of now I have found at least one more.
Please stand by while I continue searching.

tutuzdad-ga

Dear sherblau-ga;

Well guess what? Persistence pays off. As you can see I found a few
more members of the faculty at Harvard from the year 1950. Based on
your earlier statement that my information (at that time) was
sufficient, I hope this is thought of as welcomed icing on the cake:

PROFESSOR ROBERT HARRIS CHAPMAN - DECEASED
?In 1950 he arrived at Harvard, first as Instructor, soon becoming
Assistant Professor of English. He was promoted to Associate Professor
in 1956 and to Professor of English Literature in 1967.?
HARVARD GAZETTE
?Memorial Minute: Robert Harris Chapman?
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/05.17/12-chapman.html


AUTHOR, PROFESSOR RUTH STONE - 84
?Stone began teaching at Harvard University in 1950.?
INSIDE BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY
http://inside.binghamton.edu/March-April/16MAR00/rstone.html


PROFESSOR J. HILLIS MILLER - 77
?Teaching Fellow in English, Harvard University, 1950-52?
J. HILLIS MILLER ONLINE
http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/miller.html


ERNST H. KANTOROWICZ, PH.D.
?Visiting Professor, Harvard University (Dumbarton Oaks), 1950?
THE LOYALTY OATH CONTROVERSY
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/UCHistory/archives_exhibits/loyaltyoath/nonsigners.html


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Clarification of Answer by tutuzdad-ga on 26 Aug 2005 06:54 PDT

Here is another Senior Fellow at Harvard during the year 1950:

Harry T. Levin English & Comparative Literature 1947-1966


FYI ? 

Kenneth B. Murdock, was an ex officio Fellow in English Literature
from 1933 to 1936.

Charles McIlwain was a constitutional historian who, at one time,
taught medieval English history. He was not an English instructor.

James Buell Munn was already gone by 1950. His papers were donated to
Harvard in 1947 and he died in 1967.

Tutuzdad-ga

I'm pretty sure that the answer is still incomplete, but it's adequate
for my purposes. I think the names of Theodore Spenser, Kenneth
Murdock, Chas McIlwain & James Munn probably belong on the list. But I
very much appreciate getting the 10 names supplied, when I could have
guessed at only three of them. myself.

Hi, you might want to check those names on the Harvard search facility:
http://search.harvard.edu:8765/

It seems from another site that Charles McIlwain was a constitutional
historian, mentioned together with David Owen.

This is the dedication from a book, presumably by Harry Levin, that
mentions some names, not all in the English Department, perhaps, and
not necessarily at Harvard in 1950:
Levin, 1959
In preparing this book I have received invaluable aid from a number of
colleagues and former teachers. I owe an immense debt to Professor
Perry Miller, whose criticism has helped me immeasurably since the
time he was my tutor in Harvard College, and whose lectures on
Romanticism in American Literature supplied me with essential insights
to the period. I am grateful, also, to Professor Oscar Handlin for
helpful criticisms, suggestions, and encouragement; and to my
colleague Professor Yvor Winters and Professor Kenneth Murdock, both
of whom graciously allowed me to audit their lectures on American
historians as men of letters. Among other kind friends who read
portions of the manuscript, Professors Charles A. Allen, Howard
Mumford Jones, Thomas C. Moser, Thomas Pressly, and Henry Nash Smith
should recognize their valuable suggestions in the text.

Might also check William Alfred, who was there a few years later (no
he was just a grad student in 1950: 
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/04.03/22-mm.html

Good luck, Myoarin