Word: du
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, in December 1970, at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Boston, I lunched with Dr. Reddick and advised him of the department's eagerness to have him join us as a tenured professor. He indicated interest on condition that the University was serious about the Du Bois Institute. I suggested he write to the appropriate officer of the administration which he did. He never received even an acknowledgement much less information which he requested about the status of and plans for making the Institute a worthwhile endeavor to enhance Afro-American Studies at Harvard...
...Carolyn Du Vall Columbus
...although it turns this way and that so often it may appear that it could not be going any way but back. When Sieur de Champlain was snooping around the east coast in 1603 and came upon the broad mouth of the river, he named it the River du Guast after his fellow adventurer. He thought he was bestowing a great honor because he believed he had come upon a gateway to the West. He never got around to investigating further. If he had, he might have thought differently...
Harvard's eight million books, Williamson explained, comprise the largest university library in the world; Schmidt pointed to Lamont, and, by way of translation, called it "la libraire la plus grande du monde...
...du Mont...