Word: abbotts
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Completing a span of seventeen years of valuable teaching and research at Harvard, Wilbur Cortez Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History has announced his resignation from the faculty. Universally recognized as one of the outstanding authorities on British history, Professor Abbott's History 42 has been one of the most valuable courses in the field. His interest and deep study of English history of the Seventeenth Century has resulted in the publication of "A Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell," and "Adventures in Reputation...
...Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell", by Wilbur C. Abbott, professor of History. $5.00. A four orders, and letters, as well as more important documents, never brought together before, as well as the details of Cromwell's activities in Parliament, Published April...
William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, will be 41 on Wednesday, May 12; Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, 61 on Monday, May 24; Lawrence J. Henderson '98, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, 59 on June 3 and Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, 42 the same...
Government activities in the field of farm credit are, say the official Business School review, effectively summarized by John K. Galbraith, instructor in Economics, in an article on "The Farmers' Banking System: Four Years of FCA Operations." Charles C. Abbott '28, instructor in Economics, deals with "The Government Corporation as an Economic Institution", a subject about which little has been written. Finally, among articles discoursing on business and the government, Thomas N. Whitehead, assistant professor of Business, comments upon the importance of the presidential election in the United States. He regards the election as reflecting an underlying social and economic...
Meeting in Manhattan, the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals had unanimously set aside the convictions of both Warms and Abbott, placed the blame for the ship's unsafe condition wholly upon the Ward Line and deceased Captain Willmott. Censuring the judge who sentenced Warms, the Court held that the acting captain "had maintained the best tradition of the sea by staying on his vessel until the bridge had burned under him." For Abbott's conduct the Court had no commendation, but charitably held that his "futile" behavior was due to smoke-sickness, that in any case...