Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dislikes handouts prefers to chat with reporters, casually whet their curiosity so that they investigate tor themselves. For several years his activities livened conventions of the National Education Association. In 1935 he set the stage in Atlantic City for the sensational excoriation of Publisher William Randolph Hearst by Historian Charles A. Beard which gained for the N. E. A. more attention than it had ever received before...
...Accounting 3 Accounting C.P.A 3 Banking 4 Investments 2 Chemistry 22 Biochemistry 1 Criminology 1 Dentistry 1 Diplomacy 7 Economics 2 Electrical Research 1 Engineering 15 Aeronautic 1 Aviation 1 Chemical 5 Electrical 1 Mechanical 1 Metallurgical 1 Nautical 1 Theoretical 2 Foreign Service 5 Government 5 Herpetology 1 Historian 1 Importer (Italian Food Products) 1 Literature Work 6 Journalism 14 Author 1 Law 54 Manufacturer 2 Medicine 64 Meteorology 1 Naturalist 1 Naval Officer 2 Opera Singer 1 Physics Research 2 Politics 5 Psychology 1 Psychiatry 2 Public Health 1 Scientist 7 Teaching 19 Biology 2 English 2 French...
Since 1924, when Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, was appointed Tercentenary Historian, Harvard had been making preparations for its celebration, and undergraduates and others were from time to time fanned with news of the progress. Now the Tercentenary Days are a year old. The Class of 1941 is the first which was not at Cambridge then; it is the first absolutely foreign to it. It is the first of many Classes which will gain most from reading Mr. Greene's book...
...argument as to the number of Confederate soldiers is old and insoluble. Authoritative estimates vary from 600,000 to 1,082,119 enlistments. U. S. Historian Woodrow Wilson split the difference, guessed 900,000. The War Department states that 2,128,948 enlisted on the Union side...
...accident prevented the appointment, since Gibbon would only make her "unhappy and rich in England." After her marriage to Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's famed Minister for Finance, Suzanne invited Gibbon to the house frequently, kept tabs on him the rest of his life, although the scared historian took care not to get in her clutches again. Wary of all women after that, he took revenge on them by emphasizing women's treachery in The Decline and Fall. But at least one woman paid him back with interest when she told a story of Gibbon, middleaged, burdened with...