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...chronicler of the American frontier. The grandson of an immigrant German cooper, Merk graduated from the University of Wisconsin, eventually moved to Harvard. There, in the quietest of voices and with the gentlest of manners, he gave the course known to the catalogue as History 162 but to the campus as "Wagon Wheels," which annually reopened the frontier not only to thousands of Harvard students but also to Nieman Fellowship journalists such as A. B. Guthrie, who was inspired by Merk's sweeping narratives to write...
Lawrence College's Economist Mandell Morton Bober, 65, intense, deadpan expert on Marx, general iconoclast and most quoted man on the Appleton (Wis.) campus. Sample Boberisms: "If God were half as nice to us as we are to him, we'd be living in paradise," "Businessmen have as much competition as they cannot get rid of," "Once we went to market with money in pocket and came home with goods in basket; now we go to market with money in basket and come home with goods in pocket," "If every man carried his cross, mighty few women would...
Smith College's Howard Rollin Patch, 67, for years one of the most formidable figures on campus ("Examinations should be written as if the students were under gunfire"). A Harvard Ph.D., Patch became an authority on Chaucer, was so identified with his hero that a student once greeted him, "Good morning, Mr. Chaucer." His composed reply: "Just call me Geoff." Looking, as one colleague put it, "like the president of a country-almost any country," erect, white-haired Howard Patch not only charmed and terrorized students ("they have to submit to the possibility of ridicule, stand up under criticism...
...became a leader of the institutional school of economics that concerns itself not with the "timeless, placeless laws of economics" but with practical solutions to everyday problems. Though round-faced Economist Witte regarded himself as "an old-fashioned teacher" who was never really happy away from the campus on which he had studied and taught so long, he helped draft many a progressive law for his state, wrote the Federal Social Security Act of 1934-35, campaigned constantly against colleagues who were so bent on appearing scientific and mathematical that they succeeded only in not being read...
...described his technique at a professional meeting and saw eyebrows lifting all around. By 1945 he had established himself at the University of Chicago as professor of psychology and set up a counseling center in a drab, three-story house on Drexel Avenue, half a block west of the campus. To the center trooped clients (Rogers avoids the term "patient") of all ages, from all walks of life. It has been going full blast ever since...