Word: historians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with an Address of Welcome given by Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, appointed Latin Orator for the Tercentenary. This talk will be followed by a formal recital of the acts constituting the Founding of Harvard College by Samuel E. Morison '07, professor of History and Tercentenary Historian. A representative from the Common-wealth of Massachusetts, not yet chosen, will then deliver an address...
From a strategical standpoint the promotion of an American transatlantic airline as a war-defensive measure is highly desirable. An English historian once remarked, "On the day that Bleriot flew the English Channel England became a continental nation." It might be said with equal truth that the day Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Atlantic Ocean, the United States became a European power. Few events in aeronautical history are more strikingly significant than the landing of a whole squadron of Italian planes under the command of General Italo Balbo in the very heart of America at Chicago three years...
...near-sighted eyes of posterity, historical figures are apt to loom larger and more beautiful than they do under the historian's microscope. To every true-blue Briton, Horatio Nelson was one of England's greatest heroes, and his beauteous Lady Hamilton the fitting Venus to his Mars. But not to the microscopic eye of Biographer Marjorie Bowen* whose tale is enough to turn a true-blue Briton purple or green, set Nelson himself whirling on his Trafalgar column...
...confused with Elizabeth Bowen (The House in Paris), Marjorie Bowen is a versatile English historian, novelist and playwright, whose best-selling novel, General Crack, was written under the name of "George Preedy...
...president, able, young, onetime Rhodes Scholar Alan Chester Valentine, imported from Yale four months ago (TIME, Nov. 25). The University of Rochester does not have to worry about the brainpower of its faculty, which includes venerable Geologist Herman Le Roy Fairchild; able young Physicist Lee Alvin DuBridge; Historian Dexter Perkins. But last week the University of Rochester appeared to be deeply worried about the tone of its student body when it launched a nationwide search for 120 talented, attractive undergraduates...