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...Professor Petrunkevitch. Generations of Yalemen have seen his gaunt figure trotting briskly about the campus to 13 hours of classes a day. At 68, 'Pete was just getting his second wind. No more classes-but he planned to continue his faculty-student gatherings as "Pete's Teas-Emeritus," and he announced his intention of writing a three-volume summary of what he has learned about spiders. On that subject Dr. Petrunkevitch has a great deal...
Baccalaureate services have been given up for the duration. The Reverend Henry B. Washburn, D.D., Dean Emeritus of the Episcopal Theological School and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Preachers, will, however, recognize the presence of College Seniors during the service on Sunday, June...
Brave Old World. Carl Becker (professor emeritus of history at Cornell) goes along with Joseph Jones insofar as his long-term hopes are concerned. But he cautions his readers to remember that things move slowly, that the world will not change radically with the defeat of Hitler and Japan. The new world will continue to be "nationalistic, for it is nationalist sentiment that is even now inspiring the British, the Chinese and the Russians. There will be a "balance of power," for "balance" is the antithesis of the monopoly of power which the Axis hoped to put over...
Father (Frederick H.) Sill, founder and headmaster emeritus of Connecticut's Kent School, celebrated his 70th birthday reading congratulatory letters from alumni to their beloved "Pater," wore as usual the monastic habit (called by the schoolboys "the great white tent") of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross...
Died. Yandell Henderson, 70, professor emeritus of physiology at Yale; of an intestinal ailment; in La Jolla, Calif. Dr. Henderson was instrumental in the repeal of the 18th Amendment, told Congress in 1932 that it was impossible to get drunk on 4% beer...