Became Professor Emeritus. He received Charles Eliot Norton (November 16, – October 21, ) was an American author, social critic, and Harvard professor of art based in New England. He was a progressive social reformer and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporaries considered the most cultivated man in the United States. [ 1 ].
He was born, November 16, Charles Eliot Norton was an American scholar and man of letters, an idealist and reformer by temperament, who exhibited remarkable energy in a wide range of activity. After graduating from Harvard in , Norton opened a night school in Cambridge, was director of a housing experiment in Boston.
Charles Eliot Norton (November The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard University was established in as an annual lectureship in "poetry in the broadest sense" and named for the university's former professor of fine arts. Distinguished creative figures and scholars in the arts, including painting, architecture, and music deliver customarily six lectures.
Professor Charles Eliot Norton After Norton's retirement from teaching in , Norton held seminars on Dante as a professor emeritus and continued writing articles on his work. Harvard University celebrated Norton’s eightieth birthday by publishing tributes by his friends, former students, and colleagues.
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The Chair was named after Charles Eliot Norton, Class of , one of the first lecturers on Fine Arts in the University, appointed Professor of the History of Art in Norton, Charles Eliot (1827–1908), American The son of Professor Andrews and Catherine (Eliot) Norton, Charles Eliot Norton is best known as a professor of the history of art at Harvard University (). He attended Harvard himself, graduating in at the age of nineteen.
Norton kept as professor emeritus American scholar and man of letters, born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the 16th of November His father, Andrews Norton, was a Unitarian theologian, and Dexter Professor of Sacred Literature at Harvard; his mother was Catherine Eliot; Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard, being his cousin.
In 1898 he be- came PROFESSOR CHARLES ELIOT NORTON By William Roscoe Thayer Professor Charles Eliot Norton died in Cambridge, at Shady Hill, his birthplace and lifelong home, on October 21, He was born No-vember 16, , the son of Andrews and Katherine (Eliot) Norton; was graduated at Harvard College in the class of ; and after.