Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The silhouette of Widener's pillars, long a nostalgic symbol of Harvard's academic prowess, will be an unfamiliar sight to much of the University's student body, service and civilian, who have never known anything but a lightless Harvard.
When the index was given its last major overhauling, in the campaign year of 1940, there were cries from many a bigwig statistician, including Cleveland's Brigadier General Leonard P. Ayres, that the updating was for political purposes. This time, outside of the necessary slide-rule juggling to bring...
Generations of Yale Sheffield Scientific School students, inhabitants of what used to be known in New Haven as "Darkest Sheff." had the luck to take their Engish Lit. with Professor Wilbur L. Cross the salty pedagogue who became a four-term Democratic Governor of Connecticut after his academic retirement in...
Some of Wilbur Cross's pedagogical detail will be of interest only to teachers and school administrators. But many of Cross's academic victories are significant. He was always against the sort of teaching that insisted upon minute parsing of every line of Shakespeare. The analytical method of...
That the State Department's Turner would work toward such aims as these seemed clear from the fact that he had helped formulate them at Harpers Ferry. His personal history would seem to assure the forcefulness of his work. The Iowa-born economist and historian (Great Cultural Traditions) is...