Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a sleek, brilliant citizen of the U. S. became a subject of His Britannic Majesty King George V. He is Thomas Stearns Eliot, relative of the late Charles William Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University. Poet and critic, he is the author of The Waste Land, a poem which won the Dial prize for 1922, and The Sacred Wood, a volume of critical works...
Married. Miss Katrina van Dyke, daughter of the Reverend Henry van Dyke, professor emeritus of English literature at Princeton University, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Minister to the Netherlands; to Murray Peabody Brush Jr., direct descendant through his maternal grandmother of Betty Washington, sister of George Washington; by Dr. van Dyke, at Princeton...
These Sunday afternoon gatherings were started three years ago under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society and have proved very popular. Eminent men, including the late President Eliot and Professor Emeritus George Herbert Palmer '64, have spoken in former meetings, and their talks have recently been published by Charles Scribner's Sons under that title of "Religion and Modern Life...
Alcohol roused the noisiest discussion. "The one fact that hits back at the legislation [on alcohol] is the fundamental physiological law, as demonstrated by physiological chemistry, that alcohol is a normal constituent of the brain tissue," stated Dr. Charles Alfred Lee Reed, University of Cincinnati professor emeritus of gynecology and onetime (1900-1901) president of the American Medical Association. He went on: "When this supply runs low there is a natural demand for alcohol as such." His declaration was reply to two papers on the subject, which had just been presented...
...Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, went Dr. Ernest Hatch Wilkins, leaving the chair of romance languages at the University of Chicago. He succeeds Dr. Henry Churchill King, now president emeritus of Oberlin...