Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of men receiving commissions is as follows: John R. Abbott, Jr.; Oliver F. Ames; William O. Apthorp; Carleton Burr; Henry M. Campbell; Gerard H. Coster; Jack H. James; William H. Latimer, Jr.; Allan L. Levine; Thomas J. L. Redmond; Rufus F. Walker; William Woodward, Jr.; William C. Wright...
...Economics Department has announced the following changes in instruction of their courses: Economics 11b will be offered by Professor Joseph A. Schumpeter; Economics 18b will be under the instruction of Professor Gottfried Haberler; and Economics 44b will be headed by Dr. Abbott P. Usher...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell was no orthodox conservative. He was also damned for refusing-unlike Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler-to fire an outspoken German subject, Philosopher Hugo Munsterberg, from his faculty during World War I. He likewise refused to fire radical Harold J. Laski, who sided with the Boston police strikers in 1919. Lowell opposed the strikers, but defended Laski's academic freedom...
...mansion in Boston's Back Bay last week died Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 86. "Harvard College, as it stands today, is to a large extent his handiwork," said his successor, Dr. James Bryant Conant. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, for 24 years Harvard's president, himself largely represented what both admirers and detractors meant when they spoke of Harvard, Boston, and the New England cultural tradition...
...years, Abbott Lawrence Lowell guided the destinies of Harvard University. That quarter-century followed the now legendary administration of Charles William Eliot, whose genius and labor transformed this institution from a relatively insignificant college to a leader in American education. President Lowell combined continued progress with the necessary stabilization and conservatism to place Harvard in the fore-front of the nation's universities. In re-emphasizing the college as the lifegiving core of the University, he raised academic standards, instituted the tutorial system and the teaching fellowships, the House plan and the integration of Freshmen. He instilled the mass...