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Show e , H OFFERED POST AT PRINCETON i . 1 Alfred Noyes. the Engrish poet, who rs:. is in this country lecturing in the cause of world peace, has been asked to join the faculty of Princeton uni-versify, uni-versify, and it is understood that he 'a,t. has agreed to accept. His election, it 1 is said., will be sanctioned by the trus-r' trus-r' tees at their meeting in April. The position wirch Mr. Noyes is to nil, it is said is 'a visiting professors''0' professor-s''0' with lectures on modern English .1" Tature. It will begin about the middle of next February and extend g through the second term of the university, uni-versity, and. It Is understood, will continue con-tinue in this way for several years from February to June. in P Mr. Noyes is thirty-three years old. and hns been, writing poetry for more j i;f' than. 20 years. At the age of fourteen. . (V he wrote his first epic, a production af in r"5'med verse of several thousand jjjtf "nes. describing allegorically the voyage voy-age through life as on a ship. This poem was not published. Five years ! , X.:-::-:- - - y .4 A J: .' j Inter The Symbolist" was printed in the weekly supplement of the Louden ; ffi. Times. At that time he was in Exeter college, Oxford, achieving a reputation far more through hla prowess as an athlete, and especially on the class crew, (i fisn as a poet ion- |