Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOHN PAUL JONES, by Samuel Eliot Morison. Harvard's Professor Emeritus Morison is not at his best when his hero (who at one time served Catherine the Great as Rear Admiral Pavel Ivanovich Jones) is ashore, but in describing the fighting at sea, Morison has no superior...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, backed Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, and the late Summer H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, favored Nelson A. Rockefeller...
President Lowell, though, was not only the symbol of tremendous progress in the University; he was a personality. Occasionally irritable, often opinionated, he was, according to Samuel Eliot Morison, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of History, Emeritus, "a man who conversed rapidly and listened little." He pushed incessantly for what he wanted for the University and, as a result, generally...
Tackling the U.S. teacher shortage, Yale last week announced the results of a three-year project directed by Yale Education Professor Emeritus Clyde M. Hill. Eight Connecticut housewives (aged 30 to 45) attended special classes at the University of Bridgeport, taught part time in the public schools of Fairfield. All the women got higher academic scores than the norm for college girls, compared favorably with new college graduates. All taught better for having broader life experience than the average young teacher. Yale's total training cost per teacher: $750, much less than for younger student teachers. With five...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, Emeritus, still feels, 25 years later, that his effort in 1935 to rescind the Massachusetts Teachers Oath were well worth while. At that time, Mather withtood public opinion and almost defied the President of the University in his outspoken stand against the oath...