[1] In 1905, while an undergraduate at University of California, Berkeley, he was convinced by Charles Mills Gayley to achieve an academic major in English literature.
He returned to the University of California, Berkeley to take up a post as Instructor in Celtic (then a tenure-track position) within the English department in 1911-1912.
[2] There he remained until 1922, whereupon he moved to Southern California and taught English at Los Angeles City College until his retirement.
Commenting on his long life, Ruth Witt-Diamant declared him to be the "oldest living poet".
Names I have heard from that time were Genevieve Taggard, Hidegarde Flanner, Eda Lou Walton, David Greenhood, Jack Lyman.