Word: historian
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...founded in 1900 among garment workers in Manhattan, most of them immigrants. It taught them English and unionism. It soon found that its members, some of them cultured refugees from the old country, had unusual zeal for learning. In 1917 the young union started an education department, got famed Historian Charles A. Beard as consultant, opened a night-time Workers' "University" in Manhattan's Washington Irving High School, to teach labor doctrine and American history. Today I. L. G. W. U.'s education department spends $200,000 a year, has some 22,000 members enrolled in more...
According to the figures of Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard historian, the Class of 1942 will be the 297th to graduate. He figures it thus: The first graduating class was the Class of 1642. There were no classes of 1644, 1648, 1672, 1682, and 1688; but there were two in 1653. Consequently there were 55 classes in the 17th century. Add 200 for the 18th and 19th centuries and 41 for the present century which will graduate ahead of 1942. The Freshmen now entering are Harvard's 297th Class...
Harvard will remember the 300th anniversary of the death of its name-sake today at noon, when President Conant, Jerome D. Green '96, Secretary to the Corporation, and Samuel Eliot Morison '08, official historian of the University, visit the old Charleston burying ground and lay a wreath on the monument of John Harvard...
Discovered in a Paris linen closet and identified by The Netherlands' eminent Art Historian Abraham Bredius, the painting shows Christ in that episode after His Resurrection when He was not recognized by two of His followers until the moment He blessed the bread at their meal. In composition, it resembles a painting by Caravaggio, which Vermeer could only have seen in Rome as a young man. This and the head of Christ which is evidently based on the head in Leonardo da Vinci's famed Last Supper are strong evidences that Vermeer studied in Italy. The wine...
...became, in his own eyes at least, a failure. He also became the most puzzling and complex of American men of letters-a politician who was also an expert in medieval architecture, a novelist who wrote under a pseudonym and accused his friends of writing his books, a leading historian who announced flatly that histories were all lies, an amateur geologist, economist, photographer and naturalist, and an author whose two masterpieces were published despite his strenuous efforts to suppress them...