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...McLean chair, being awarded to Professor Brinton, is one of the oldest in the University; its previous holders include Jared Spark, 1815, also a president of the College, and Ephraim Whitman Gurney '52, for whom the Gurney chair is named. The last McLean Professor was William Scott Ferguson, who became an emeritus last spring...
...Ferguson of the Royal Naval College, Eaton, Chester, started poking around in the old numbers. He made a shocking discovery, promptly wrote a letter to Nature, the London Times of British science. On the 528th decimal, Ferguson had found a one-digit discrepancy. The rest was chaos...
Already depleted in the past year by the retirement of William Scott Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, and the death of Roger Bigelow Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, the History Department will be further weakened by the loss of two of its best known figures. Avoiding new appointments until return of its absent members, it will attempt to pull through the interim period with the assistance of visiting lecturers, four of whom were announced earlier this week...
...burrowing his toes in Florida's sand. In Washington there was the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully he moved, "in utter seriousness," that the committee ask the former Prime Minister to be a witness...
Next day, when temptation and tempers had cooled, the motion was put to vote. Only one Republican-California's Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart-joined Senator Ferguson. By a vote of 6-to-2, the committee let Winston Churchill relax...