Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory
The Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory is an endowed chair at Harvard University. It was established in 1804, and endowed by the will of a Boston merchant, Nicholas Boylston.[1]
| Image | Name | Start date | End date | References |
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John Quincy Adams | 1806 | 1809 | [2] |
| Joseph McKean | 1809 | 1818 | [2] | |
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Edward Tyrrel Channing | 1819 | 1851 | [2] |
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Francis James Child | 1851 | 1876 | [2] |
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Adams Sherman Hill | 1876 | 1904 | [2] |
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Le Baron Russell Briggs | 1904 | 1925 | [2] |
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Charles Townsend Copeland | 1925 | 1928 | [2] |
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Robert S. Hillyer | 1937 | 1944 | [2] |
| Theodore Spencer | 1946 | 1949 | [2] | |
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Archibald MacLeish | 1949 | 1962 | [2] |
| Robert Stuart Fitzgerald | 1965 | 1981 | [2] | |
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Seamus Heaney | 1984 | 1995 | [2][3] |
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Jorie Graham | 1999 | [4][5] |
References
[edit]- ^ Adams, John Quincy. "Letter from John Quincy Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 1819 May 24". harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hendricks, Jay (July–August 1995). "How Harvard Destroyed Rhetoric" (PDF). Harvard Magazine. 97 (6): 37–43.
- ^ "Honoring, and feeling, Heaney's presence". Harvard Gazette. 2015-03-31. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
- ^ "Jorie Graham - Harvard University Department of English". Harvard University Department of English. Archived from the original on 2018-04-02. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
- ^ "Poet Jorie Graham to Read on April 26 at Library's Celebration of National Poetry Month". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-04-11.