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...Nation" to the audience as a film classic. "Birth of a Nation," released in 1915, marked a great leap forward for the fledgling film industry, introducing moving cameras, night filming and a musical score. But even at the time it was bitterly criticized (by the NAACP and by President Emeritus Charles William Eliot among others) for its racist content...
President Emeritus Nathan M. Pusey '28, who said yesterday he is too busy in New York City to attend today's Commencement, was in Cambridge several weeks ago for the dedication of the Lamont Bench in the Yard and toured the library then...
Nathan M. Pusey '28, president emeritus and predecessor to President Bok, will retire in June from his present position as president of the Andrew Mellon Foundation...
...bones, unearthed from a quarry outside the Chinese capital in 1926, disappeared when the Japanese invaded the capital 15 years later. The two leading hunters have now written books. Christopher Janus, a Chicago businessman and amateur anthropologist, has spent a small fortune on the search. Professor Harry Shapiro, chairman emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History's department of anthropology, has been pursuing the missing bones ever since the war. In that time he has followed up scores of tips from strange people who are rarely willing to give their names. A typical phonecaller told Shapiro that...
...Skinner is officially retired now. The professor emeritus hasn't conducted research for at least ten years, nor does he follow current research. "I don't try to keep up with research now," he admits. "I look at the journals and read the abstracts but don't read the papers. And I can't understand much...