Word: emeritus
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Died. Dr. Sidney Edward Mezes, 67. president emeritus of the University of Texas, onetime (1914-27) president of the College of the City of New York, head of the American Committee on Territorial Adjustments which advised President Wilson at Versailles; after a lingering illness; in Pasadena, Calif...
...there is almost a father? and ? son relationship. Mr. Mills calls his chief "the old man." So active is the younger man's control of all Treasury affairs, so complete is "the old man's" confidence in his judgment that Mr. Mellon has become a sort of Secretary-emeritus. Undersecretary Mills is politically ambitious. He yearns to sit in the U. S. Senate from New York, provided of course he is not elevated from the sub-Cabinet in the meantime upon Mr. Mellon's retirement. His new geniality is political. His slant on public questions is political. The angle...
...black & eggshell chiffon & lace gown was reckoned the best-dressed doctor's wife. Georgie, eldest of her three daughters, was along with her.) He built and gave Baylor its Gary Hall. Two years ago he surrendered his many university connections, except the professorship and became medical dean-emeritus...
Died, Dr. Franklin Henry Giddings, 76, pioneer U. S. sociologist, professor emeritus of sociology at Columbia University; after a long illness; in Scarsdale, N. Y. An oldtime editorial writer for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, he succeeded Woodrow Wilson as economics professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1888, went to Columbia in 1894, first U. S. sociology professor to hold a chair so designated. To a science still largely abstract he brought a new, exact method, involving for the first time statistical studies. His authoritative Principles of Sociology was ten years a-writing...
William Henry Scott, 90, onetime president of Ohio State, now emeritus professor of philosophy . . . LL.D...