Word: helene
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Savides interviewed Helen Keller in 1933 and later recorded his impressions and Miss Keller's responses to certain questions. A condensed version of his notes is printed below commemorating Harvard's first honorary degree awarded to a woman. Savides holds an A.D. degree from Robert College, Istanbul, and an A.M. ('11) and Ph.D. ('17) from Harvard. A retired professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Savides has lectured publicly in America...
...first heard of Miss Helen Keller when I was 15 years old and only a freshman. One of my best professors called our attention to Miss Sullivan's book about her and what he said, in a ffew words, made such an appeal to my boyish imagination that I lost little time in securing the book and reading it. Sometime later the story of her life appeared in the "Ladies Home Journal" and the wife on an American professor kindly lent it to me. I was so interested that I spoke about this most remarkable personality before the Greek Y.M.C.A...
From my readings about her at the time I well remember what Mark Twain had said, namely, "Napoleon and Helen Keller were the most interesting personalities of the nineteenth century." At the end of the first third of our century I'll go even further than Mark Twain and say that no living personality is as interesting and unique as Helen Keller. I'm wondering whether in all history there has been any woman as unique and interesting an Helen Keller...
...Wolbach is the second graduate to receive the award. It was first presented last year--to Helen Keller '04, who will reportedly become the first woman recipient of a Harvard honorary degree, Thursday...
...three University teachers include Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics; Mrs. Helen D. Markham, former assistant professor of Anatomy at the Medical School; and Leon J. Kamin '49, former research assistant in Social Relations at the College...