BLISS PERRY, EMERITUS

As the present academic year draws to a close, change in an important Professorship gives its closing a special meaning. Since 1926 Professor Bliss Perry has held the Francis Lee Higginson Professorship of English Literature. As editor and teacher, the passing years have found him well-liked in his success; as professor emeritus, future years will find him well-remembered in his retirement. A scholar as well as a speaker often inspiring, he brought the best of himself into the classroom, and left the touch of his kindly, whimsical personality upon the great men of letters whom he interpreted. His students will remember him for the human quality which he never sacrificed for pedagogical catch-word or scholastic obscurity, for his ability to give life to past greatness, and for his capacity for enthusiasm.

The next incumbent of the Francis Lee Higginson Professorship thus enters upon a tradition which will not soon be forgotten by Harvard men. It is fitting that Professor John Livingston Lowes should be called upon to continue that tradition.