Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the University of Chicago's self-starting, self-winding curriculum, undergraduates set their own pace: they can get their degrees as fast as they earn them. William Hamburger, 20, was not the first in Chicago's history to get his bachelor's degree in one year. But he was the first to do it with...
...south end, a full block away from some of their reporters. Turner Catledge, assistant to James, was given a pair of opera glasses by his staff to survey the farthest reaches of the room. Near by sits City Editor David Joseph, a shy, balding, quiet-spoken bachelor of 61. His public-address system is one-way; staffers who want to talk back have to hike over to his desk...
...became a Companion of Honor. Novelist Elizabeth Bowen became a Commander of the British Empire. William Gilliatt, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (who had just been named attendant specialist to Princess Elizabeth), got a friendly vote of confidence when he was made a Knight Bachelor...
...mailed to you." ¶ At the first commencement of Vermont's new Marlboro College (TIME, Sept. 8), there were four commencement speakers and only one graduate. ¶ At Missouri's Rockhurst College (Kansas City), a bus driver and a union business agent received the first U.S. bachelor's degrees in labor relations...
Teacher Fisher, raised in Volens by a bachelor uncle and a maiden aunt, hopes to study for an M.A. at either Columbia or the University of Chicago. But he will come back to a country school ("That's where I want to be"). He doesn't worry much about his $1,650 salary: "I didn't enter teaching to get rich...