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Mr. Stedman Declines Yale Professorship.
Edmund Clarence Stedman, the famous poet, has declined the offer of the new Billings Chair of English Literature at Yale. The chair was founded two years ago by Judge E. W. Billings of the class of '53, who left $75,000 for its maintenance. Mr. Stedman believes that Yale, in trying to improve her English department, should make use of younger blood. He says that twenty years ago he would willingly have accepted the offer.
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