Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three months ago, as chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard signed a petition to President Roosevelt asking that the cinema code include restrictions on block booking. President Roosevelt signed the code without such restrictions and appointed Dr. Lowell. Eddie Cantor and Marie Dressier as Government representatives to the Code Authority. Last week Dr. Lowell refused the appointment. His reasons, explained in letters to General Johnson, showed a remarkably sound knowledge of the cinema industry...
...Cantor was a singing waiter in a Coney Island beer parlor, his comedy routine consisted of a song or two and a few jokes, original or stolen. Now that he is the highest-paid funnyman in the U. S. and a member of the Cinema Code Authority with President Emeritus Lowell of Harvard, his performances require such elaborate preparations that he can appear in only one a year. William Anthony McGuire, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood, George Oppenheimer, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin and Cantor himself collaborated on story or dialog for Roman Scandals. Several thousand showgirls received screen-tests...
...accordance to custom, a reading will be given by Professor Charles T. Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, and Carols, led by Mr. George W. Woodworth, the Assistant Chorister, will be sung...
...science and syphilis, he seems to have jumped at a conclusion regarding their exact relation in an academic curriculum. To begin with, he has not made clear whether he considers syphilis a trade or an art. Secondly, it should be pointed out that the efforts of the renowned professor, emeritus, were devoted to the stamping out of that malady, whereas no one contends that the R.O.T.C. departments concentrate the whole of their efforts toward the abolition of war. It is not rather idealistic to suppose that a student who has spent one-fourth of his college course learning the technique...
...thunder do you mean by "liberal" when, if you thumb through the University catalogue, you will find listed courses on "Musicology," "Weather-forecasting," "Aesthetics," "Sensation," "Accounting," and three on "Sanitary Engineering." You will also find, near the top of the list of academic seniority, a "Professor of Syphills, Emeritus...