Records of the Perry-Finley Plan, 1932 January 29.

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Records of the Perry-Finley Plan, 1932 January 29.

Contains carbon copy of letter from Edward K. Rand to Pres. Abbott L. Lowell concerning a proposal.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8183870

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University. Department of the Classics (1890)

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The Classics Department was formally established in 1890-1891 when departments first were recognized as organizational units within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, although the department had been in existence for some time. It was placed in the Division of Ancient Languages with the Department of Indo-Iranian Languages (later, Indic Philology). The Division of Ancient Languages last appears in the Catalogue in 1949-1950....

Rand, Edward Kennard, 1871-1945

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Rand (B.S. 1894) taught at Harvard, 1901-1942, and was appointed Pope Professor of Latin in 1931. From the description of Correspondence, 1915-1949. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612881980 Rand was an American classicist and medievalist. Educated at Harvard (B.S. 1894) and the University of Munich (Ph.D. 1900), he taught at Harvard (1901-1942), where he was Pope Professor of Latin (1931-1942). He founded the Medieval Academy of America (1925) and the journal Spec...

Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943

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Nicola Sacco (1891-1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927) were Italian immigrants who were tried and executed for robbery and murder of payroll guards Frederick Albert Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli. The case of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Sacco and Vanzetti quickly became one of America's most complicated and notorious political trials. They were found guilty on July 14, 1921, but the legal struggle to save them extended until 1927. By April 9, 1927, all appeals in the Massachu...