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FROST NAMED TO ADAMS BOARD OF ASSOCIATES

Distinguished Poet Selected to Serve Until His Emerson Fellowship Ends In Two Years

By vote of the Harvard Corporation, Robert Frost, thrice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and first holder of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Followship in Poetry, has been appointed an Associate of Adams House, it was announced yesterday.

In this capacity he will be able to take an active part in the life of the House for the two years he will hold his Fellowship here.

Mr. Frost, although this is his first year on the Faculty at Harvard has previously served at Amherst, Michigan, and Yale Universities, and at New Hampshire State Normal, and his former connections with Harvard have been as a student, 1897 to 1899; as Phi Beta Kappa Poet, 1916; and as the recipient of the honorary degree of Litt. D., 1937.

His genius at rendering intimate accounts of New England life in poetry has caused him to be recognized as one of our foremost American poets and won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1930, and 1937, in addition to many other awards and honorary degrees.

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