Word: abbotts
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...Abbott Also Retires...
Professors Abbott's knowledge of Seventeenth Century England has in many instances cast a new light on the understanding of the revolutionary and religious movements of that significant period. For his books on this subject, perhaps even more than for his lectures he will be remembered as a great scholar possessed with the keenest of intellects and yet with the crispness of wit which save his works from the abyss of factual documentary, but dull historical evidence...
...Gilliland, cf lf, p, Manker Downs, 3b rf, p, Soden Moore, 2b, ss p, 3b, Wiley Burbank, ss, p c, Mason Turner, c cf, Findley Benedict, 1b ss, Van Slyke Kelly, lf 3b, rf, Murphy Kerby, rf 2b, Stacey Cherbonnier, p, 2b 1b, Johnson SUBS: Lowisohn, rf cf, Abbott 2b, Riddle
Resignations of Wilbur Cortez Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, and Dr. George Burgess Magrath '94, professor of legal medicine at the Medical School, effective next September 1, were announced yesterday. Goth will become professor emeritus...
Professor Abbott, who has been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1920, is noted as an authority on British history, particularly on the English revolutionary and religious movements of the 17th century. Before coming to Harvard he had taught at Cornell, Michigan, Dartmouth, University of Kansas, Chicago, and Yale. Among his works are "The Expansion of Europe", 1917; "Conflicts with Oblivion", 1924; "The New Barbarians", 1925; "A Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell", 1929; and "Adventures in Reputation...