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...Institute was founded in 1930 with an endowment from the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundation. Henry B. Bigelow, then a Professor at Harvard, became first director and head of the Board of trustees. Also interested at this early stage was Columbus D. Iselin, also a Harvard man, who later became director of the Institute when Bigelow retired. Up to this time, although Bigelow and Iselin had made exploratory trips to Labrador, there had been no systematic study of Oceanography in the United States...
...organization, represented by Alexander H. Bright '19 and Edward L. Bigelow '21 has issued letters seeking the necessary money from ex-athletes. Limitation of the drive was necessary to avoid conflict with formal University fund appeals...
...program will feature the "Third Symphony" by Randall Thompson, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music. This work was written in commemoration of those who died in World War II. Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" will also be performed...
...president has carried on a highly successful drive to revise his entire administrative organization. He now has a top educator and progressive thinker in vice-president Bruce M. Bigelow who administers his stopped-up intellectual program. His drive, pointed toward cutting astronomical student mortality figures, has succeeded in bringing expulsions down to half their former number. But there is a limit to what can be accomplished without capital and facilities to attract top educators...
...announcement of the reorganization of Brown's curriculum came after the report of a faculty committee headed by Bigelow. Study of the problem was begun in 1946 under a $250,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation...