Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Professor Ticknor” in chapter 5, page 61 of Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches:
...then at the height of his reputation.
In 1829 Longfellow returned to Portland and was immediately chosen a professor at Bowdoin College, where he remained for the next seven years. When, in 1836, Professor Ticknor retired from his position as instructor of modern languages at Harvard, his place was offered to Longfellow and accepted.
This brought him into the literary centre of New England, and
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