After graduating Summa Cum Laude in 1933 he was appointed Junior fellow in then new Society of Fellows, where he pursued in depth what were to become his three major interests: Shakespeare and the English Renaissance; modern literature generally; and the relation of English and American to other literatures, from Greek and Latin antiquity to the present, all of which are reflected in his early publications, giving him a perspective lacking in the ordinary specialist and scarcely matched in his later years by more than three or four scholars here or abroad. In the 1930s, junior fellows did not normally take a Ph. D., so that Harry, like his noted predecessor, George Lyman Kittrdge, remained an A.B., though he was in time to receive six honorary degrees, including ones from Oxford and the Sorbonne, and though he was, over the years, to supervise over ninety doctoral theses.〔Walter Jackson Bate, “Harry Tuchman Levin (18 July 1912- 29 May 1994), ''Proceedings, American Philosophical Society'': 140: 1 (1996): 101.〕