Word: emeritus
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Says Herman W Liebert librarian emeritus of Yale's Binecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. "He [Bond] inherited a wonderful resource and had a very, very difficult act to follow, but he has lived up to the challenge[Houghton] is one of the finest collections in the world because ofWilliam Bond...
...colleague. Al MacGilveray, will climb quietly to the top of the Memorial Church bell tower, where they will wait for further instructions Shortly before 10 a.m. they will receive an intricate series of hand signals and nods triggered by the appearance of Mason Hammond. Pope Professor of Latin Emeritus point man for the big operation...
...pronouncement of the Marshall Plan, the U.S. contribution to the rebuilding of post-war Europe and a major first step in the Cold War. Few in attendance that year recognized the plan for what it was however. Mason Hammond 25, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus, who as the "caller" of the academic procession has attended Commencements regularly since before World War II, recalls. "At the time I didn't think it was a terribly important speech...
David Riesman S. Ford II Professor of Social Science Emeritus says he has not missed a Commencement since his graduation and emphasizes the impact of the jet plane and television in making it a more important event...
...When he starts to tell you something, you listen," says Eliot Perkins `23, professor of History emeritus. Perkins--who as a one-time master of Lowell House, had a longstanding rivalry with Finley--says that while he was two years ahead of Finley as an undergraduate, he always remembers him as a "person who stood out." Finley "instinctively knew how the undergraduate mind and perception worked, and he presented the subject matter in a way that the undergraduate would pick up," Perkins says of Finley the professor...