Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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August retirements will include Edward Ballantine '07, associate professor of Music; Harold S. Kemp, lecturer on Geography; Simeon B. Wolbach M.D. '03, Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy; Henry W. Holmes '03, professor of Education; and Edward L. Gookin, registrar of the College Library.
John Gunther, the most successful living practitioner of his kind of journalism (a mixture of Burton Holmes, Drew Pearson, Walter Winchell and the World Almanac) is highly readable. His writing is brisk and breezy. It is also glib, superficial, exaggerated, full of impressions passing as insights and facts palmed off...
Mrs. Craigie rented rooms to lodgers, and one of them was Professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whom she first refused because she thought he was a student. When she died in 1841, it was found that all had not been pleasant between the Craigies. She had a lover whom she had...
The dictionary calls it "a catarrhal affection of the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and respiratory tract," and Oliver Wendell Holmes said that the only cure for it "is six feet of gravel, taken externally," but all these unfortunates cursed with hay fever know that it is one damn...
Disregarding Holmes' advice almost 200 handkerchief-wielding, bleary-eyed University students flock to the Hygiene Building at bi-weekly intervals to get injections for their malady. So great has been their onslaught that the bottles of serum used for the shots have overflowed one refrigerator, and the Hygiene Department has...