Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry K. Oliver chair was founded in 1914 and named for the donor at the time of his death in 1920. As an undergraduate, Oliver felt that students needed more instruction in the field of Hygiene, but it was not until Dr. Worcester's appointment that the department was organized on its present plan...
Although on September 1st Professor Worcester leaves the Henry Kemble Oliver Chair of Hygiene to become Professor Emeritus, he will always be recalled by those now in the College and those who have entered since his coming in 1925, as one of the more memorable and lovable figures in the University. For ten years he has been a familiar figure to every Freshman class, in the New Lecture Hall, the Hygiene Building, and in evening conferences with small groups from the Freshman dormitories...
...call any man who is still very much alive a "character" or a "venerable figure" is a tacit admission that he is getting old; but those who know Dr. Worcester, would certainly deny that this had any significance beyond mere numerical years. Appointed to the Chair of Hygiene at seventy, when most people are thinking of retirement, if they have not yet achieved that degree of bliss, he has in these ten years shown no lessening of his energy...
According to the Primate, he was ordered by traffic police to leave his car and enter theirs, was kept sitting parked in a fashionable suburb of Mexico City from 6 to 8:30 p. m., then taken to a police station where he sat up all night in a chair, refusing food but accepting lemonade...
...also announced that Samuel Sachs, New York broker, who died March 2, had bequeathed the University $40,000, to be used to maintain the chair in Fine Arts which he established in 1916. He was the father of Paul J. Sachs '00, professor of Fine Arts...