| − | '''Robert Morss Lovett''' was a radical activist, professor, Secretary of the [[Virgin Islands]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ely|first1=John H.|title=On Constitutional Ground|date=1996|publisher=Princeton University Press|pages=91}}</ref>, and editor of [[The New Republic]] in 1921,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REA9AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA290|title=The World Tomorrow, Volumes 4-5|date=1921}}</ref> and was president of the [[League for Industrial Democracy]] when it was first formed.<ref>{{cite book|title=The challenge of waste|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SClRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP2|date=1922|pages=2}}</ref> | + | '''Robert Morss Lovett''' was a radical activist, professor, Secretary of the [[Virgin Islands]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ely|first1=John H.|title=On Constitutional Ground|date=1996|publisher=Princeton University Press|pages=91}}</ref> and editor of [[The New Republic]] in 1921,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REA9AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA290|title=The World Tomorrow, Volumes 4-5|date=1921}}</ref> and was president of the [[League for Industrial Democracy]] when it was first formed.<ref>{{cite book|title=The challenge of waste|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SClRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP2|date=1922|pages=2}}</ref> |
| | Lovett was born in Boston on Christmas day, 1870. He entered Harvard University in 1888, where he became associated with Norman Hapgood, Robert Herrick and the poets Trumbull Stickney, Philip Henry Savage, and William Vaughn Moody. The year of his graduation, 1892, Mr. Lovett became assistant in English at Harvard University, and the following year instructor in English there. In 1893 he came to the University of Chicago as assistant instructor in rhetoric, and from 1896 to 1904 was assistant professor in English. From 1904 to 1909 he was associate professor, and then became professor.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wm1AAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA325|title=The Drama, Volume 7|date=1917}}</ref> | | Lovett was born in Boston on Christmas day, 1870. He entered Harvard University in 1888, where he became associated with Norman Hapgood, Robert Herrick and the poets Trumbull Stickney, Philip Henry Savage, and William Vaughn Moody. The year of his graduation, 1892, Mr. Lovett became assistant in English at Harvard University, and the following year instructor in English there. In 1893 he came to the University of Chicago as assistant instructor in rhetoric, and from 1896 to 1904 was assistant professor in English. From 1904 to 1909 he was associate professor, and then became professor.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wm1AAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA325|title=The Drama, Volume 7|date=1917}}</ref> |