Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several shelves of books from his own library have recently been given to the Poetry Room of the Harvard College Library by G. H. Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and civil Polity, Emeritus. Included in the collection is a series of English poets believed to have been in the possession of John Ruskin. Professor Palmer has at various times made other gifts to the Library, especially to the Philosophy department, and also to Wellesley College, of which his wife, Alice Freeman Palmer, was first president...
Lord Abbot Emeritus. Japanese public opinion continued with honest simplicity to support the Japanese Army's action in Manchuria for what it was, a land grab. But Japan has her equivalent to an Archbishop of Canterbury. Voluminous in his sombre robe, the Buddhist Elder, Count Kozui Otani, Lord Abbot Emeritus of the Great Western Hongwanji Temple at Kyoto, summoned U. S. correspondents and sonorously declared...
Died, Dr. John B. Deaver, 76, since 1886 chief surgeon at Philadelphia's old-time German Hospital (now the Lankenau), Emeritus Professor of Surgery at University of Pennsylvania; of anemia; in Philadelphia. His specialty: appendectomy. One year he performed an average of six operations every weekday. He could manipulate his scalpel with both right and left hands. He was a surgeon's surgeon; he operated on more medical men than any other surgeon in the land. Once 160 physicians attended a dinner in his honor, given by men upon whom he had performed major operations...
Died. Dr. David Starr Jordan, 80, Chancellor Emeritus of Stanford University; of apoplexy after a long illness of arteriosclerosis and diabetes; in Palo Alto, Calif. Rugged, tall, white-maned, shaggy-mustached, he was Stanford's "Grand Old Man." He had made his influence felt throughout the world: as pacifist, ichthyologist and educator (TIME, June 28). He was chief director of the World Peace Foundation (1910-1914), president of the World's Peace Congress in 1915, vice president of the American Peace Society. He feared and worked to avert the World War, but said later: "Our country...
...group includes: L. B. R. Briggs '75, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Harvard College; R. S. Hillyer '17, assistant professor of English; Leigh Hoadley, professor of Zoology; A. N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government; F. W. C. Lieder, associate professor of German; K. F. Mather, professor of Geology; L. S. Mayo '10, assistant dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; R. B. Merriman '96, professor of History; Henry Pennypacker '88, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions; F. W. Taussig '79, professor of Economics; R. DeC. Ward '89, professor of Climatology and present Chairman of the Board...