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O. B. Hardison Jr., a Renaissance scholar with two UNC degrees, joined the university's English department in 1957 and was named by Time magazine in 1966 as one of the country's outstanding college teachers. He left in 1969 to direct the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Also found in catalogs as O. B. Hardison.
1928–1990 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Ed Magnuson's magazine article profiling ten American teachers, among them O. B. Hardison of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Six pages with portraits, detached from Time, volume 87, number 18, dated May 6, 1966. The Orange County link is Hardison's place on the Carolina faculty.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Hardison, O. B., Jr. (Osborne Bennett), 1928-1990.
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