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Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor Emeritus, agreed that TV is valuable for close-up demonstrations. Chafee, who gives a course on "Human Rights and the Constitution," also agreed that the lack of audience contact is a defect. "I never gave a straight lecture at the College," he explained. "I always let the students ask questions. But on TV I can never be sure I've gotten my point across, and I lack the benefit of class opinion...
Last December, however, a more violent rebuttal of Halton was attempted by Professor Emeritus George W. Elderkin. In the first of two privately printed booklets, entitled "The Roman Catholic Controversy on the Campus of Princeton University," Elderkin accused Halton and Dean of the Graduate School Hugh S. Taylor of collaborating in a "Catholic program to undermine the fundamental principles on which Princeton University is founded...
Others included Roscoe Pound, University Professor, emeritus, Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, George A. Smith, Jr., Professor of Business Administration, Arthur E. Sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law, Eric G. Ball, Professor of Biological Chemistry, Garrett Birkhoff '32, Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Alexander Forbes '04, Professor of Physiology, emeritus, Albert B. Hastings, Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry, Eugene M. Landis, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, Joseph L. Walsh '16, Perkins Professor of Mathematics, Isidor I. Rabi, Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics...
...theme of Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is fraud leavened with a little Freud. In particular, it is the kind of fraud practiced by the English, who cling to the belief that if something awkward is ignored, it will go away. Gerald Middleton, handsome, sixtyish and a kind of historian emeritus among English medievalists, has long repressed a suspicion that the 1912 discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin rested a shockingly priapic fertility...
John Tucker Murray '99, professor of English emeritus, and noted authority on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, died last Friday in California...