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...Humanities in the Age of Science" will be fought over by J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature; John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature; and Perry G.E. Miller, professor of American Literature...
Among the members of the Faculty honored were J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature; and Stanley S. Stevens, professor of Psychology...
...attended Harvard, winning the Bowdoin prize twice, and receiving his A.B. in 1882. After teaching Latin at Exeter for six years, he was appointed instructor of English in 1888. Immediately popular with the Faculty and the student body, he soon became a full professor, and in 1917 was named Gurney Professor of English, a post he held until his retirement in 1936. Although he was given a plethora of honorary degrees (from Harvard, Oxford, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, McGill, Brown, Trinity, Union and Colby), he never received a Ph.D. "Who," he replied when someone asked why not, "could examine...
...commercial jet fleet as a transport reserve needed for national defense. It gave CAB a swift kick in the pants, told it, in effect, to give the lines immediate emergency relief. Promptly. CAB offered a 6.6% interim fare boost by a vote of three to two (Vice Chairman Chan Gurney voted against the boost on the ground that it should be 10%). If accepted, as expected, domestic trunklines will get a 4% raise, plus an additional $1 on each ticket, along with the hope that real relief will come later...
...Flying saloons are a social problem," Thurmond hotly told an aviation subcommittee. President Rowland K. Quinn of the Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association agreed. But Civil Aeronautics Board Vice Chairman Chan Gurney scoffed that the drys are all wet. CAB has checked 2,000 complaints in the last few years, and not a single one proved that liquor service jeopardized a flight's safety. In most instances where drunkenness was reported, the passenger had done his drinking before coming aboard...