Excerpt from The Inauguration of William Allan Neilson, as President of Smith College His most important work in the Harvard Gradu ate School has been the directing of research in the field of modern literature. He has been President of the New England Association of Teachers of English, vice-president of the American folk-lore Society, and of the Modern Language Association of America, and he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.