Poet in Residence

RICHARD EBERHART '26 becomes Poet in Residence at Dartmouth next fall, and joins the faculty to teach the poetry seminar in English 101. Awarded the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize twice, and the Shelley Memorial Prize by the Poetry Society of America in 1951, Eberhart was given the honorary Litt.D. degree by Dartmouth in 1954. He received both the B.A. and M.A. degrees from Cambridge University, England, and attended Harvard Graduate School. For a year he was tutor to the son of the King of Siam. He has been poet in residence and has taught at various colleges and universities, lecturing last year at Princeton. His reputation as one of the outstanding modern poets is established in both this country and England.