Word: craning
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Memorial services for the late Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Emeritus, who died Sept. 7, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Fri. in Memorial Church...
...using the drills for just two or three more days, and after that the only noise during the day will be an occasional crane," he said...
...Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Emeritus, died September 7 at Stillman Infirmary after a long illness...
Dean Ford, who had Brinton as an advisor for his Ph.D. thesis, felt that the man was best in small tutorial groups, and that in these situations Brinton retained an informal yet critical style. As one colleague put it: "Crane Brinton, besides having a lively and wide ranging mind, was one of the kindest and most generous men I have ever known. He viewed the world with a genial skeptcism that permitted him to judge with humane indulgence the foibles of his fellow...
Last spring when the Yearbook decided to write about the older members of the Harvard faculty including Crane Brinton, the article concluded, "To mark the passing of a great man is not to strike a mournful note, but merely to reflect upon the time-table of a career. For every end there is always, somewhere, a new beginning; and it is a funny but accepted truth that the many who start are always overshadowed by the few who finish...