Prof. C. H. Page Dies
DR. CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE '11h, Winkley Professor of the Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature at Dartmouth from 1911 to 1930, died December 12 of a heart attack, at the age of 76. He had made his home at Gilmanton, N. H., since retirement from teaching and was active in civic affairs, serving as town moderator, representative to the General Court for several sessions, and as State Senator in 1939 and 1941. Death occurred at the Laconia, N. H., hospital, following a severe attack of the heart ailment from which he had suffered in recent years.
A graduate of Harvard, where he also took his Master's and Doctor's degrees, Professor Page taught at Western Reserve, Harvard, Columbia and Northwestern before coming to Dartmouth as Winkley Professor. He had long been prominent in the literary field, and was formerly editor of Poet Lore and associate editor of Pathfinder magazine in addition to writing books, poems, essays and stories. He was noted for his translations of the works of French poets, especially those of Pierre de Ronsard. He was the author History ofJapanese Poetry (1923) and the editor of British Poets of the Nineteenth Century,Rabelais, and The Chief American Poets.
