Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Albright: "We don't hit for the literary type of the booklover in spite of all our walnut paneling. There are so few of them we'd starve to death in no time." Albright, known in the trade as the "corn salesman," once heard a bookseller complain to a publisher that nothing was being published for the thinking man. Said Albright: "I told them that the average man . . . couldn't read anything but corn and what we needed was more corn...
Elton Mayo, Professor Emeritus of Industrial Research who retired from the faculty in 1947, died in England September 1. At the time of his death, professor Mayo was residing at his home in Pelesden-Lacy, Surrey. He was 68 years...
...Mary DeQuedville Briggs, widow of LeBaron Russell Briggs, former dean of the University and president of Radcliffe, died September 11 in Milwaukee. A native of Cambridge, she was 89 at the time of her death...
...wrinkle in an old face, "The Long Wait" spans the brief interval between an impending automobile collision and the death of one of its occupants. Author Daniel Ellsberg takes his central character through a dreaming flashback and unconquerable optimism before the car hurtles off the road and overturns...
Apart from the legend, the official story goes that the university was founded soon after the death of young Leland, in memory of the boy who died just before he reached college age. Senator Stanford expressed the desire that the university should bring intellectual life to the West and add to the vigor of the Western experience. He wanted a college that was free from the outworn traditions of older universities, especially one that would, in his words, "qualify its students for personal success and direct usefulness in life." He felt that colleges had become too far removed from American...