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3 unusual facts about Edwin Mims


Edwin Mims

A pair of statues representing Dismas and Lazarus in the foyer of the Benson Chapel on the campus of Vanderbilt University are dedicated in his honor.

He served as the Chair of the English Department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee for thirty years from 1912 to 1942, and he taught many members of the Fugitives and the Southern Agrarians, two literary movements in the South.

Milton W. Humphreys

According to Edwin Mims (1872-1959), who served as Chair of the English Department at Vanderbilt University from 1912 to 1942, Humphreys was sickened to find out that Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński (1859-1944) has already published a volume on research he had been doing for years.



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