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| | E.E. CUMMINGS: POET AND PAINTER |
 | | Edward Cummings, the father (Harvard '83), had been an instructor in sociology, but then had become a clergyman, preaching in Boston as the assistant, the colleague, and finally the successor of Edward Everett Hale at the South Congregational Society, Unitarian. |
 | | There were two such magazines at Harvard in those days, The Monthly and The Advocate, and they looked down on each otheror, to be accurate, they nodded to each other coldly from the facing doors of their respective sanctums on the dusty third floor of the Harvard Union. |
 | | Except for those six nonlectures at Harvard, his only concession to the public, and to the need for earning money, was reading his poems aloud to mostly undergraduate audiences in all parts of the country. |
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