Word: emeritus
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Died. Dr. George Madison Priest, 74, bearded, longtime (46 years) member of Princeton's faculty, professor emeritus of Germanic languages and literature, noted translator (Goethe's Faust); in Princeton. Known to generations of Princeton undergraduates for his nickname ("Judas Priest"), his gentle good humor and his rumpled tweeds, he was one of the original preceptors (tutors) appointed by Woodrow Wilson...
...very phrase "educators' conference" suggests somehow a group of limp, ineffectual men who foregather periodically to offer noble, impractical suggestions to universities which receive them in stony silence. Actually, educators are capable of saying things that need listening to and the conclusions of last week's conference including Dean Emeritus Roscoe Pound-which met at Princeton, were bright, forthright, and in large measure need acting on. Their big, blunt theme is that the world's universities are "strongholds of nationalism," that, "so long as this is true, universities actually can unwittingly promote war," and that "they should have one responsibility...
...approval, this tone was typical: ". . . an appeal to the finer sensibilities of thinking people . . ."; "it inspired in me a spirit of exaltation and rededication . . ."; "as, you say, 'religion informs art and makes it greater than itself,' so may religion inform journalism. . . ." Reader Carl G. Doney, E president emeritus of Willamette University, probably summed it up best, in saying: "Most of all we are grateful to Miss Anderson for what she is and what she does...
Died. Dr. Morris Raphael Cohen, 66, Russian-born philosopher, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, writer and wit; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. The big-domed professor was an intimate of famous minds (Einstein, Cardozo, Holmes), a sharp-tongued champion of students, author of several notable books (Faith of a Liberal...
Returning to the College as a lecturer for the first time since his retirement in 1943, William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, emeritus will open an 11-week series of talks on the philosophy of law in Emerson D at 4 o'clock Monday...