Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Action on an FEPC law came when the Council approved a report by the Committee on Minority Problems, led by Ernest M. Howell '47. The statement announced that the Committee will ask the regional National Student Organization to back legislation similar to that now operating in New York...
...world's biggest cyclotron will be built on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Last week the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Chairman David E. Lilienthal, seconded happily by U. of C.'s Ernest O. Lawrence, announced that the Government will finance a vast machine (no feet in diameter) to dwarf all present atom-smashers. It will weigh more than 10,000 tons, cost $9 million...
...Freshmen, who get back into action tomorrow against Northeastern on Soldiers Field, elected Ernest E. Monrad '51, of Hollis Hall and Phoenix, Arizona, as manager...
...Atlanta, the University of Chicago's President Ernest C. Colwell* told Southern colleagues that only a dozen U.S. universities deserved the name. (He declined to identify them.) Added Colwell: "Universities cannot be rapidly multiplied in number, nor can their output of graduates be increased,.except as quality is lost. It must follow then, as night follows day, that the G.I.s in the universities (though not necessarily in the colleges) will be shortchanged...
...Concertgebouw learned many a score under the baton of the composer himself-Strauss, Mahler, Hindemith-and many more under guest experts like Pierre Monteux, Ernest Ansermet (TIME, Feb. 2), Bruno Walter. For 45 of its 60 years it felt the sure hand of the same good conductor, Willem Mengelberg. Among his innovations were the great annual Easter performances of Bach's St. Matthew Passion and foreign tours for which the Concertgebouw is famed...