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Send feedbackThe well-deserved tribute to the poet Michael Harper omitted the fact that Harper was the first holder of the I.J. Kapstein Chair in English. Created in 1988, it was also the first chair endowed in the department since 1802. Marvyn Carton ’38 donated $1 million ($5 million in today’s money) in honor of the former Brown English professor, my late father, Israel J. Kapstein ’26 ’31 PhD, ’76 LLD. Carton often said the Kapstein course on the modern novel was the only liberal arts elective he took at Brown, and, in his own words, “It stayed with me for life.”
Jonathan Kapstein ’61 Woodbury, Conn.
