Yaleman Archibald MacLeish ('15) has always had a partiality for Harvard, too. He graduated from Harvard Law School (1919), then taught at the college for two years. In 1938, as curator of Harvard's Nieman Fellowships, he shepherded the first group of newspapermen through their year at Cambridge. Last week Harvard invited MacLeish back for life. The Harvard Corporation picked him for the 178-year-old Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, first held by John Quincy Adams and later by such great teachers as LeBaron Russell Briggs (1904-25) and Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland (1925-28).
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