Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attended a Harvard dinner given for me by the Japanese alumni of the University. I was surprised to see the great interest they had for anything that I could tell them about new developments at the University. I also had the pleasure of meeting again Dr. Goto, professor emeritus of Zoology at the University of Tokyo, who had obtained his Ph.D. degree at Harvard, and whom I had known here...
...Crawford, Instructor in Physics, and Theodore Lyman, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Emeritus, to endeavor to construct an amplifier for small direct currents...
...death of Arthur T. Hadley, president emeritus of Yale, marks the termination of a life filled with creative effort. As an undergraduate Hadley was famed among his classmates for his broad knowledge, taking prizes in such varied fields as Greek and Latin poetry, astronomy, and English composition. A scholar, he had proceeded far towards the achievement of that balance which every well-rounded individual desires between physical and mental exertions. Not only was he a skilled Alpinist, but was said to have been as well versed as Walter Camp in the theory of football...
...Lyon, Hancock Professor of Bebrew and other Oriental Languages, Emeritus, for copying, classifying, cataloging and studying the cuneiform inscriptions on clay tablets found at Nuzi...
Other awards were made to: W. H. Pickering, Assistant Professor of Astronomy Emeritus, H. H. Plaskett, Associate Professor of Astrophysics, J. H. Ropes '89, Hollis Professor of Divinity, Morgan Upton, Instructor in Physiology and in Psychology, and J. H. Woods '87, Professor of Philosophy...