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Such are the discoveries of University of Wisconsin English Professor Emeritus Frederic Cassidy, 71, who so far has spent 13 years laboring to complete the first comprehensive dictionary of American regionalisms. Financed by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities as well as private foundations, Cassidy and a staff of eight editors at the University of Wisconsin are slowly sifting American literature and records of interviews with 2,752 native Americans in 1,002 communities. The team has nearly finished editing the letter F. First conceived in 1889, the dictionary, which will include 60,000 entries...
...Claude E. Welch, chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Registration and Discipline and clinical professor of Surgery emeritus, said yesterday the ruling "doesn't make any difference to us in Massachusetts," because they took similar steps several months ago when a state agency advised that changes would be necessary...
George Wald '44, professor emeritus of Biology and winner of the Physiology and Medicine Nobel Prize, told the enthusiastic crowd that "Nuclear power and weapons are the most life-threatening thing that has ever come up in the history of the planet...
Alexander Gerschenkron, Barker Professor of Economics Emeritus, died Thursday in Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He was 74 years...
...BILL SCHEFT Harvard 20-7 Yale 31-10 Cornell 17-16 Rutgers 27-11 Holy Cross 25-20 9-18 (.333) JOHN POWERS '70 Harvard 23-2 Yale 28-20 Cornell 21-10 Rutgers 17-3 Holy Cross 20-0 Selector Crimson Editor Emeritus Boston Globe Sportswriter