Word: allerton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English Literature, Emeritus, the oldest living emeritus professor, and holder of four honorary degrees from four other universities; Arthur H. Hopkins, Chief Linotypist to the CRIMSON, Emeritus; Paul Codman Cabot '21, retiring Treasurer of Harvard College, who herded the endowment over the billion dollar mark earlier this year; Charles Allerton Coolidge '17, retiring Senior Fellow of the Corporation; William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History, Emeritus; C. Day Lewis; C. H. Taylor, retiring Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History and Master of Kirkland House; John Coolidge '35, director of the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum; Philip Hofer, free, white...
Died. Robert Allerton, 91, philanthropist and horticulturist, heir to a Chicago stockyards fortune who gave $ 1,500,000 to the Chicago Art Institute and another $1,000,000 to Honolulu's Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, but mainly devoted himself to his bachelor estate on Kauai, Hawaii, which he turned into perhaps the world's finest tropical garden with the help of Landscape Architect John Gregg, 64, his constant companion, whom he legally adopted as a son in 1959 after the repeal of an Illinois law preventing one adult from adopting another; in Lihue, Hawaii...