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...being awarded to Professor Brinton, is one of the oldest in the University; its previous holders include Jared Spark, 1815, also a president of the College, and Ephraim Whitman Gurney '52, for whom the Gurney chair is named. The last McLean Professor was William Scott Ferguson, who became an emeritus last spring...
Clark taught Zoology here between 1904 and 1935, at which time he became associate professor, emeritus. His retirement, June 30, is from the post of curator of Marine Invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, to which he was appointed...
...Nicholas Murray Butler, 83. president emeritus of Columbia University, sent shocking regrets to a luncheon party for Winston Churchill. Explained Dr. Butler: he had lost his sight. His doctors blamed it on "70 years of overwork...
America in Small. Mrs. Sim, a white-haired grandmother, still chats occasionally in German with her husband, a 72-year-old professor emeritus of economic history at Columbia. German was the language of their romance 53 years ago at the University of Berlin (when he spoke no English and she knew no Russian). For relaxation Mrs. Sim attends concerts ("I'm just a musician gone wrong") or walks briskly around the Village, blithely ignoring the traffic lights...
Nicholas Murray Butler, 83, Columbia University's president emeritus, thought that strikes and lockouts had reached the stage of civil war. His cure: "Prevent strikes and lockouts by law-absolutely...