Word: dumbarton
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Died. Robert Woods Bliss, 86, adroit U.S. career diplomat, former Minister to Sweden (1923-27) and Ambassador to Argentina (1927-33), who with his wife, the former Mildred Barnes (heiress to the Fletcher's Castoria fortune), in 1940 gave their historic Georgetown estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to his alma mater Harvard, which turned it into a center of Byzantine studies and a meeting place for statesmen, notably for talks leading to the birth of the United Nations; of cancer; in Washington...
...Washington, D.C., the University operates the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection for study in Bysantine and Mediaeval Humanities, and the recently established Center for Hellenic Studies...
...Peterson Elder, professor of Greek and Latin, has been appointed acting director of the New Center for Hellenic Studies in Dumbarton Oaks...
...grant will finance the staffing, fellowship, and research of the Center as well the erection of a building to house the Center's activities in Dumbarton Oaks...
Other women who hold the rank of full professor in the University and are active faculty members are Sirapie Der Nersessian, Henri Focillon Professor of Byzantine Art and Archeology at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington; Cora Du Bois, Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of Anthropology; and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Professor of Astronomy...