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...most recent resignations have been those of John L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, emeritus; Fred N. Robinson '91, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus; and John T. Murray '99, Professor of English, emeritus. All of these resignations were tendered last June...
This crack appeared in the bank's Letter, whose monthly summaries of business trends bring statistical kudos to a young Economist-Vice President, 45-year-old George Bassett Roberts, tall, owlish professorial son of the bank's economist-emeritus, 82-yeaR-old George Evan Roberts. In the same Letter last week Economist Roberts also published the nine-month earnings figures of his selected 320 corporations-a far better gauge than last quarter reports of how much real prosperity, ex-war-boom, U. S. business has achieved. By industrial groups these nine month earnings showed...
Peppy, pottering Dr. Herbert Putnam, 78, longtime head of the Congressional Library at Washington, D.C. (now librarian emeritus), was given the J. W. Lippincott Award ($500) for distinguished service in librarianship, in accepting told the American Library Association, outspoken opponent of President Roosevelt's selection of Poet Archibald MacLeish to succeed him, that as a Scot, poet, humanist, lawyer, soldier, and orator, Poet MacLeish was a fine man to be Congressional Librarian...
...after two years even Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, beloved as "Copey" to generations of Harvard men and a fixture in Hollis Hall, had to admit that the Freshmen were as gentlemanly as their predecessors. Other observers noted that all the buildings were still standing...
...brown and gnarled. But he still has the same temperament, as can be seen in his championing scientific underdog Robert Hooke. Moreover, his step is firm, his voice vigorous, and his tall figure is neither gaunt nor flabby. He retired from the Princeton faculty and became a professor emeritus six years ago, but that is a sort of pious hoax. He is as active as ever...