Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston police, state troopers and detectives guarded the Chancellor's friend as if he had been an Ambassador. At the home of the classmate who invited him to Harvard, eminent Brain Specialist Dr. Elliot Carr Cutler, strapping "Putzy" received Harvard President Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell who discussed with him - according to Dr. Hanfstaengl - Bismarck, Demosthenes, the art of public speaking and Hitler as an orator. While special correspondents of all leading news services hung around Dr. Hanfstaengl day after day on the chance that his presence would start a race riot, he parried their questions with 100% Teuton...
...ears ringing with the counsels of Harvard's President James Bryant Conant and of their own pontifical President Nicholas Murray Butler, presiding over his 32nd commencement. At Cambridge next week President Conant was to preside for the first time over a commencement of his own, with frosty President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell back to talk to some 650 seniors about "War and the League of Nations." Yalemen were wondering how many more commencements would be graced by President James Rowland Angell, 65. At this, his 13th, he was to preach the baccalaureate, award an LL. D. to President Roosevelt...
Middlebury College (Middlebury. Vt.) Singer Louise Dilworth Beatty Homer. Mus.D. President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard.... LL.D...
...lack of academic competition in American as contrasted with the prevalence of this stimulating factor in European Universities, is attacked by president-emeritus Lowell in an article appearing in the June issue of the Harvard Teachers Record, which will be put on public sale today...
Another incident to add to the Lowell tradition la told of the President Emeritus in connection, with his deafness. After the service at a certain church he went up to the minister and apologized for not being able to come oftener but that he didn't hear very well. Whereupon the minister suggested that he sit in a pew in which an acousticon had been installed, "Oh, no, no," President Lowell replied, "it's nothing physical, It's nothing physical...