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Barry Wood was the Crimson's All-American Dean's List scholar athlete of yesteryear and a triple threat at that. Another famed Harvard character is "Copey" Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus. Annually he attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman, Robert Benchley '12, and many more...
...Emeritus. He and his ex-dancer wife Lily finally bought a small house in Jamaica, L.I. In his weakened condition, he contented himself with a sedentary project-repeated subway rides between Manhattan's Penn Station and Harlem. In 1932, in his Harlem Symphony, he reported some of the things he had heard-or might have heard-Jewish horns at noth Street, Spanish castanets at n6th, Negro basses at 12 5th. Cut down to beer ("my great love is champagne"), ailing with sinus, Jimmie went back to studying music...
...Episcopal Chaplains convened at the Harvard Faculty Club Wednesday night. The Right Reverend Henry K. Sherrill, Chairman of the Episcopal Army and Navy commission, served as host togther with the Very Reverend Henry B. Washburn, Dean Emeritus of the Episcopal Theological Seminary...
...University of Chicago's The Human Adventure radio program is not a new idea. It was used successfully for 42 weeks on CBS in 1940. The originator was William Benton, advertising man emeritus (Benton & Bowies), now a University of Chicago vice president. Sherman Dryer, head of the University's radio department, produces it with the assistance of the faculty and Chicago radio actors. As a dramatization of the factual research going on in colleges and universities, Chicago's show has already scored heavily with students of many degrees of learning...
Died. Dr. Charles McLean Andrews, 80, pre-eminent historian of the American Colonies; Yale professor emeritus; in New Haven. Gifted equally in research, writing and inspiration to younger historians, he succeeded Woodrow Wilson in 1925 as president of the American Historical Society (the late great Henry Adams' onetime post), retired in 1931 from his professorship, in 1933 from his 21-year editorship of Yale's Historical Publications. He won 1935's Pulitzer Prize for the first of his four crowning volumes: The Colonial Period of American History...