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Faculties of both departments have been radically shaken by the war. In History six men have left, four because of the war, and in Government five more. William Langer, Coolidge Professor of History, Donald McKay, associate professor of History, and John Fairbank, Faculty instructor in History, are now working for the Office of the Coordinator of Information in Washington and Barnaby Keeny, instructor in History, has volunteered for the Army. Professor Samuel Eliot Morison and Instructor Bradley Thompson are the other...
...History department has obtained two replacements. Professor Packard of Amherst has taken Professor Langer's place for the second half year, and Professor Steiger of Simmons has taken over the duties of Dr. Fairbank for that period...
Janet Ayer Fairbank, novelist officer of the America First Committee, asked committee members to send Christmas cards this year bearing an America First plug...
...best people." But the Commentator's wives talked too much about New York; their husbands too much about isolationism. Townsfolk simplified it by calling them snobs. By summer "The Strangers" found more congenial company in such homes as the 40-room mansion of Socialite Novelist Janet Ayer Fairbank, ex-Democratic Committeewoman and No. i female America-Firster; the summer castles of the Mortons (salt), the Cranes (plumbing); the $1,000,000 Indian temple transported by the Maytags (washing machines) from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 to Lake Geneva...
...notch teachers. And although they are not devoting their full time to teaching, they are retaining their full status, complete with salary. Men like Professor Kemble in the Physics Department, Professor Elliott, Dr. Gordon, Assistant Professor Fainsod, Professor Emerson in the Government Department, Professors Langer, Fay, and Fairbank in History, and Economics Professors Mason and Black are holding important government positions. Because of their part or full-time absence, many courses have had to be radically reorganized or omitted. The tutorial staff, already pitifully small, has been further depleted. There are ten Government courses and nine. History courses, notable History...