Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. James Morford Taylor, 86, professor emeritus and head of the mathematics department of Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.), teacher of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick; at a sanitarium in Greenwich, Conn...
William Williams Keen, 93, of Philadelphia, ''emeritus of American surgeons"; born, Philadelphia; degree from Jefferson Medical College 1862; president...
President Suzzallo, who has been a Carnegie Trustee since 1919, was once (1926) board chairman. He will still have the benefit of President Emeritus Pritchett's experience when he takes office in August. In addition to the Carnegie presidency, Dr. Suzzallo has other important chores which will keep him occupied for some time to come. He has not yet finished his work of coordinating the educational activities of the Government as director of President Hoover's advisory Committee on Education for which he temporarily dropped a study of U. S. graduate schools for the Carnegie Foundation...
...Williams James Batt, oldest living Brown graduate (class of 1855), Chaplain Emeritus of the Massachusetts State Reformatory...
...become by degrees one of the most respected, syndicated, banquetted of U. S. humorists. Once he was named for Governor of Oklahoma but declined the nomination. He was Mayor of Beverly Hills, Calif., until a new state law made it a "city of the sixth class" and Rogers "mayor emeritus." President Wilson said that he found Rogers' remarks "not only humorous ... but illuminating." In 1919 he published his first book. The Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference, which contains his famed quip: "It says in there [the Peace Covenant] 'There is to be no more wars.' And then there...