Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Implications. A quarter century ago, with another cast of characters dredged out of mythology, Novelist John Erskine zoomed into bestsellerdom with The Private Life of Helen of Troy, a smooth, sophisticated novel which gave Helen & Co. the immediacy of next-door neighbors. Erskine is now 70 and a professor emeritus of Columbia University, but he appears to have lost little of the confident urbanity and slick malice that became his literary trademarks. Always gallant, his defense of his Venus is both tolerant and graceful: "Her infidelities were only apparent, they were never more than intermittent, and she always went home...
...back as 1936 surgeons were working out a way to treat a psychosis by an operation called prefrontal lobotomy-the last resort for schizophrenics and manic-depressives. Using a technique devised by the University of Lisbon's emeritus professor Dr. Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, skilled neurosurgeons cut away important nerve connections in the prefrontal brain lobe (a seat of reasoning) and the thalamus in the rear of the brain (a way station for emotional responses). The operation's aim: helping the patient to a better adjustment with his environment...
Other sponsors connected with the University are Ralph B. Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer in Chemistry, Robert Ulich, professor of Education, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy...
Elton Mayo, Professor Emeritus of Industrial Research who retired from the faculty in 1947, died in England September 1. At the time of his death, professor Mayo was residing at his home in Pelesden-Lacy, Surrey. He was 68 years...
...Apologies. Like the U.S. Commission on Freedom of the Press (TIME, March 31, 1947), the 17-member Royal Commission was mainly composed of nonjournalists; it was headed by Sir David Ross, provost (now emeritus) of Oxford's Oriel College and a distinguished Aristotelian scholar. As Britain's press lords paraded before the commission, they made no apologies...