Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At the same time O'Brian announced that the endowment fund's executive offices have been moved from New York to Boston, where Trumbull, a former Harvard Club president, will devote all his activities to raising money to revitalize the Divinity School.
"I have always had two ambitions," says Frederick Lewis Allen, "to edit and to write." He achieved both of them. A staffer on Harper's Magazine for 30 years, Allen has been its top editor for the last 11. He has also turned out dozens of articles and found...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, received the award in poetry for his book, Collected Poems, 1917-1952. Bernard DeVote '18 received top honors in non-fiction for his The Course of Empire, which traces the early exploration of America.
¶ Colleges should not "devote time and energy to elementary drill . . . The secondary schools, both public and private, could and should be responsible for the 'stage of discipline' in the fundamentals . . . The pendulum has swung too far in some quarters against the older idea (abused as it was...
"Scholars who devote themselves exclusively to what they specialize in have good educations in their particular fields, but they will be unable to form ideas in other areas", he has said, "and the General Education program is intended to enable students to integrate and understand the many things in a...