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Among breeders, owners, trainers and jockeys, who devote their money and energy to other thoroughbreds for the express purpose of beating Native Dancer, there are those who half hope that they will not succeed, so great is their reverence for the horse. On the day of his most recent race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Big Grey | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

H. Bradford Westerfield, instructor in Government, will give Government 124 in the place of Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government, who will devote the year to writing and research.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spiro Will Give Gov. 112 Next Year; Westerfield to Lecture in Gov. 124 | 5/13/1954 | See Source »

Besides these difficulties, Bard suffers from an unduly large faculty turnover, especially since many of its professors devote a goodly proportion of their time to professional work outside the field of teaching. Because of the effort required to teach a curriculum composed entirely of seminars, teachers find themselves hard-pressed...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii and Peter V. Shackter, S | Title: Bard: Greenwich Village on the Hudson | 5/12/1954 | See Source »

But Anderson had not planned on such ostentation. He only demanded that the bridge bear the following inscription: "May this bridge, built in memory of a scholar and soldier, connecting the college yard and playing fields of Harvard, bean ever-present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to...

Author: By James F. Gilligan, | Title: Bridging the Charles | 5/5/1954 | See Source »

At the same time it was announced that two outstanding fine arts scholars, Millard Meiss of Columbia and Sydney J. Freedberg '36 of Wellesley, will join the faculty next year. Meiss, an expert on Italian Renaissance art, will serve as a full professor. He expects to teach during the first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opdycke Will Succeed Deknatel as Chairman Of Fine Arts Faculty | 5/5/1954 | See Source »

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