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Returning to the English Department after a year away will be Morton W. Bloomfield and John M. Bullit '43, professors of English, James Craig LaDriere, professor of Comparative Literature, and John L. Sweeney, curator of the Farnsworth and Poetry Rooms. Bloomfield will take over as head of the department...
THAD A. GUTOWSKI Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
JOSEPH KERR Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
...linguistics can probably be traced back to 400 B.C., when the Indian scholar Panini worked out the first systematic description of Sanskrit. Its recent recognition, however, stems largely from the spirited intellectual battle now going on between two opposing schools: structural linguistics, led by Yale's Leonard Bloomfield in the 1930s and today defended most vigorously by Charles Hockett of Cornell, and the newer transformational linguistics, which was conceived and developed by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...payroll, Ford telephoned him at home and hinted at the presidency. "I made no commitment," recalled Knudsen last week, "nor were any details worked out. Then I told Mr. Roche that I had been approached." The next Saturday, Ford drove to Knudsen's home in Bloomfield Hills, and there the deal was clinched. Knudsen then phoned Roche. "He wished me well," says Knudsen, "and hoped we could be friendly competitors -and I assured him we could...