Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bucknell University Samuel Eliot Morison, naval chronicler, emeritus professor of history, Harvard University L.H.D...
...medley (butterfly, backstroke, breast stroke, freestyle), Stanford Junior George Harrison, 20, won in 4:28.6 to better by 2.6 sec. the fastest time ever recorded for the event and earn high praise from Yale's Coach Emeritus Bob Kiphuth: "Technically the greatest all-round swimmer in the world." Behind Harrison was Sophomore Lance Larson of the University of Southern California, who himself was .5 sec. under the record...
...becoming the majority group may once have horrified U.S. Protestants. To what extent that climate of opinion has changed is demonstrated by the New Republic with a symposium of three experts: Congregationalist John C. Bennett, dean of Manhattan's Interdenominational Union Theological Seminary; Unitarian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., professor emeritus of history at Harvard and Pulitzer-prize-winning author (The Age of Jackson); Missouri Synod Lutheran Jaroslav Pelikan, associate professor of historical theology at the University of Chicago...
Seller's Market. What put the show on the road was a $24.5 million grant from the Ford Foundation in 1957. The operation is still based at Princeton, under President Sir Hugh Taylor, dean emeritus of Princeton's graduate school. But its recruiting setup now spans the nation; 3,000 of the 4,000 fellowships given so far have been awarded since the Ford grant. On U.S. campuses today, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship is fast becoming a domestic version of the Rhodes Scholarship-a peak of academic distinction...
...James B. Conant, president emeritus of Harvard, gave the first public report on his current study of U.S. junior high schools. Conant praised efforts to departmentalize the eighth grade (with four specialized teachers per class instead of one), but warned that "drastic revisions may be in order in many schools." Among them: a longer school day, a possible end to small schools. Then Conant loosed a blast. In his study so far (125 junior high schools in 17 states), he has found "an almost vicious overemphasis on athletics." Said Conant: "Colleges, of course, are by and large the worst sinners...