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Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory 
Summary
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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] |
|
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] |
|
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.