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Sturgis E. Leavitt taught Spanish at the University of North Carolina from 1917 until he retired in 1960, becoming a Kenan Professor in 1945. He founded and directed the university's Institute of Latin American Studies and advised its foreign students.
Source: NCpedia: Leavitt, Sturgis Elleno
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1888–1976 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Sturgis E. Leavitt's report, dated October 7, 1944, on the English school the university ran at Chapel Hill for Latin American doctors and engineers between July 20 and September 15 of that year, paid for by the Commonwealth Fund. Topics include the teaching of English to foreign speakers, foreign students in the town, and the university's Inter-American Institute.
Serial report by Sturgis E. Leavitt on a Carnegie grant to the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina, issued at Chapel Hill. Topics include library materials at Chapel Hill, so the reports account for the Latin American books and materials the grant brought to the university. This number dates from 1974.
Sturgis E. Leavitt reports on the Latin American books and materials the University of North Carolina bought under a Rockefeller Foundation grant, issued in 1974 by the Institute of Latin American Studies at Chapel Hill. It is a serial record of library materials acquired in Chapel Hill, useful for tracing how the university built that collection.
Sturgis E. Leavitt reports, on 9 April 1941, on the winter session the University of North Carolina held from 19 January to 2 March of that year, a summer school run out of season. It deals with the university's Inter-American Institute and with foreign students at Chapel Hill. Printed by Leavitt himself.
Sturgis E. Leavitt, 1888 to 1976, taught Spanish language and literature at Chapel Hill, and his papers run from 1911 to 1966. Topics include travel in Chile, Cuba, Europe and Spain, including Zalamea de la Serena, and work on José Martí and José Toribio Medina. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1967.
Hugh Morton photographed opera singer Norman Cordon in May 1942 as he prepared for an international tour, studying a Spanish book with Professor Sturgis E. Leavitt of the Spanish department and Angela Vidal, a student from Mendoza, Argentina. Cordon sang in Memorial Hall on 11 May 1942.
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From 1937 to 1983 the Institute of Latin American Studies at Chapel Hill accumulated about 4,000 items in 6 linear feet, now in the University Archives at UNC as collection 40089. Topics include Latin American studies and research grants at the university, the earlier Inter-American Institute, and the scholars Federico G. Gil and Sturgis E. Leavitt (1888-1976).
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Leavitt, Sturgis E. (Sturgis Elleno), 1888-1976.
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