Word: erasmus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whose suggestion 60 Dutch companies, organizations, trade unions and individuals have contributed $200,000 for what Bernhard calls "Holland's modest thank-you"-an endowed chair in The Netherlands civilization at Harvard, where Secretary of State George C. Marshall first announced the Plan 20 years ago. Called "the Erasmus Lectorship," the chair will be filled each year by a visiting Dutch professor, beginning next fall with Art Historian Frans Q. Van Regteren Altena...
...Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands will be at Harvard Wednesday to establish the Erasmus Lectureship on the Civilization of the Netherlands...
...first Erasmus Lecturer will be J.Q. Regterem Altena, professor of Art at the University of Amsterdam. He will come to Harvard for a term next year. Future lecturers could include experts on any aspect of Netherlands civilization...
...little more than four hundred years ago Albrecht Durer made a portrait of Erasmus but felt it necessary to protect himself by putting an inscription right in the painting: "If you really want to know what the man Erasmus is like, read his books." A book, either by or about the man, would give information gathered over a longer period than the interval presented in a single picture...
Died. François C. Erasmus, 70, South African politician, one of his country's fiercest supporters of anti-British, white-supremacist doctrines, who in 1952, as Minister of Defense, purged most of the military's World War II leaders because they had fought in "Britain's war," and in 1960, as Minister of Justice, was largely responsible for the ill-famed Sharpeville massacre of 72 Africans protesting the apartheid passbook laws; of a heart attack; in Bredasdorp, South Africa...