Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professional Status. Condon's name came up again over the Bernard Peters affair. In 1949 Dr. Oppenheimer frankly testified before the Un-American Activities Committee to the dangerous Red tendencies of Dr. Bernard Peters, a physicist (who now denies any connection with Communism). Condon, the board found, wrote Oppenheimer an angry, threatening letter, and, as previously disclosed, also tried to inspire a story that Oppenheimer was 1) losing his mind, and 2) about to embrace the Roman Catholic faith. Instead of showing anger at the Condon letter, Oppenheimer wrote to a newspaper in Rochester, where Peters was teaching...
Honorary degree speculation has also centered about Professor of History Helen Maud Cam, who is retiring and returning to England, Chester Bowles, former ambassador to India, George Kennan, former ambassador to Russia, art historian Bernard Berenson '88, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt...
...other winners were sophomore Bernard Flynn in the compromise class and senior Mike Leonard in the wherry race...
...Czarist assassin to corpulent Hilaire Belloc. In those days, young Garnett had no intention of surprising the world, as he did in the '30s, with such out-of-the-ordinary novels as Lady into Fox, The Sailor's Return, Pocahontas. He did not even listen when George Bernard Shaw, watching him play in a children's charade, dubbed him a "born actor." Botany was his choice, but it failed to flourish in air that was positively humid with literary precipitations. All that survives today of Botanist Garnett is a pinheaded fungus named Discinella Minutissima Ramsbottom et Garnett...
...committee of four will choose the winning essay. They are I. Bernard Cohen, associate professor of the History of Science and lecturer in Natural Sciences 2; Philippe E. LeCorbeille, professor of Applied Physics and lecturer in Natural Sciences 1; Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics and lecturer in Natural Sciences 2; and Leonard K. Nash, associate professor of Chemistry and lecturer in Natural Sciences...