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PERRY TO DISCUSS TEACHING AS CAREER

Eight Other Graduates and Teachers Also to Have Office Hours Tomorrow for Personal Discussion

Professor Bliss Perry of the English Department will speak on "Teaching as a Career", the third lecture of a series on choosing vocations, in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock this evening. Following the custom of the preceding lectures, Professor Perry will endeavor to answer such questions as may be asked him.

Personal interviews may be obtained with any of the following men by signing for conference periods in the blue book placed on the main desk in the Main Reading Room of Widener Library. All the conferences will be held tomorrow in the Quiet Room of the Union with the exception of those with Professor T. W. Richards '86, who will meet men wishing to see him in the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory on Frisbie Place. Tomorrow morning Assistant Professor H. H. Burbank G. '15 of the Department of History, Government and Economics, will hold conferences from 11 to 12 o'clock; Mr. W. L. W. Field '98, headmaster of Milton Academy, from 11 to 1 o'clock; Dean C. N. Greenough '98, from 12 to 1 o'clock: Dean H. W. Holmes '03 of the Graduate School of Education, from 12 to 1 o'clock; Professor J. L. Lowes G. '03 of the Department of English, from 11 to 12 o'clock, and Professor T. W. Richards '86 of the Department of Chemistry, for 10.30 to 11.30 o'clock. In the afternoon Professor C. H. Moore '89 of the Latin Department will confer with men from 3 to 3.45 o'clock: Professor G. H. Parker '87 of the Department of Zoology, from 4 to 5 o'clock, and Professor Bliss Perry from 2 to 4 o'clock.

Professor Perry has been teaching since his graduation from Williams in 1881 and is the author of numerous works of fiction, biography and poetry. From 1886 to 1893 he taught English at Williams and then accepted a professorship of English at Princeton, a position which he retained until becoming editor of the Atlantic Monthly in 1900. In 1909 he became professor of English Literature here and from 1909 to 1910 was the Harvard lecturer at the University of Paris. Professor Perry is the author of "The Broughton House", "The Plated City", "The Powers at Play", "The Amateur Spirit", "Whittier", "The American Mind", "Carlyle", "The American Spirit in Literature", "A Study of Poetry", and "Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson".

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