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...great historian Carl Bocker, who taught at Cornell for many years, went so far as to say that White probably had a greater influence on American higher education in the nineteenth century than any other person. That was high praise, since among White's contemporaries were Charles W. Eliot who began his reform of Harvard in 1869, Daniel G. Gilman, who helped to found Johns Hopkins in 1875, and John W. Burgess, who began to introduce radical changes in the curriculum at Columbia a few years later...
Amory has been with the Central Intelligence Agency since March, 1952, when he was granted a leave of absence from the Law School. He succeeds Loftus B. Bocker, who is resigning to resume law practice in Washington...
...Minneapolis Lakers' 20 point lead was enough to hold off a frantic Knicker-bocker rally for a 91 to 84 victory last night and give the Lakers their fourth national basketball championship in the past five years. The Knicks, trying mightily, whipped the New York crowd into a frenzy by pulling to one point at 85 to 84 with 35 seconds left to play. . . . Ernie Lombardi, former National League batting champion, is reported to be recovering from his suicide attempt...
Many of the old executives were purged in the annual January elections, and Bocker, one of the reformers, became President...
...meeting Friday in Winthrop House, of the Harvard Chapter of Delta Sigma Rho, national honorary debating debating fraternity, the following members were initiated by chairman Melvin L. Zurier '50; William C. Bocker '51, Walter C. Carrington '52, Richard W. Hulbert '51, Bruce S. Lane '52, and Lloyd J. Walker...