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...care for she (the grant specified a female) would be the first woman professor in Harvard's history. The lady chosen had to be both outstanding in her field and vigorous enough to make her way in a strictly masculine universe. In both ways the choice of Helen Maud Cam was singularly fortunate, for besides being a ranking medieval historian, Miss Cam, in her late sixties, has more of an intellectual bounce and a livelier guffaw than most of her younger and graver students. And at an age when most scholars are remembering their earlier inspirations with a tepid chagrin...
...nationwide letters-to-the-editor cam paign...
...Senator (1930-32) and U.S. Representative (1943-45); while vacationing in Quebec. Morrison lost the 1932 Senate Democratic primary race by some 100,000 votes to roaring Bob Reynolds, who followed him in a model T and, imitating Morrison's dignified strut, described to shocked North Carolina hillbillies Cam's favorite dish: "It's caw-vee-yah . . . It's little black fish eggs, and it comes from Red Russia...
Bostonians will have to get used to some radical new architecture across the Charles River Basin on the M.I.T. cam pus. In 1950, M.I.T. commissioned Michigan Architect Eero Saarinen, whose wicketlike design for a Jefferson memorial in St. Louis caused a sensation five years ago (TIME, March 8, 1948), to submit plans for a new campus center with auditorium and chapel. Saarinen's idea: to challenge the age-old rectangle with a new pattern of spheres, cylinders and triangles...
...opposition." Freedom to oppose is indeed of the essence of democracy, but to regard the government as something set up by the popular vote which it is then the main duty of the people to oppose turns it into a cocoanut-shy and democracy into a game. Helen Maude Cam Radcliffe Professor of History