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GARROD TO SPEAK IN FIRST NORTON LECTURE TONIGHT

"Poetry and the Teaching Office" is Subject at 8

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Tonight at 8 o'clock in the Large Fogg Lecture Room Heathcote William Garrod. Fellow of Merton College and Sometime Professor of Poetry at Oxford, who holds the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry here this year, will deliver the first of his fair lectures.

His subject tonight will be "Poetry and the Teaching Office". Succeeding lectures, to be held on the three following Wednesday evenings, will be on Matthew Arnold and James Russell Lowell.

Professor Garrod has announced that he will follow the custom established by Professor Gilbert Murray when he occupied the Norton Chair, by holding informal discussion groups in his rooms, 37 Grays Hall, on Thursday afternoons at 5 o'clock. The second of these meetings will take place tomorrow.

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