Word: howe
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Friends of the late Mark de Wolfe Howe have made an anonymous $100,000 gift to Miles College in Birmingham, Ala. to memorialize the former Harvard professor's interest in civil rights...
...upon a scholar's ability to probe and publish-which in turn often depends upon his ability to unearth research grants. "You need the federal loot to do the research to do the book to get the loot," says Stephen Trachtenberg, an assistant to U.S. Education Commissioner Harold Howe. "Research aid comes too easily to the researchers," adds Engineering Science Professor Samuel Silver of Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory. "We've come to expect...
...Dick Howe placed third in the mile with a creditable time of 4:16.7 on Cornell's relatively slow track. Army's Bob McDonald, who has run 4:04 this year, won in 4:13.1. Harvard's other individual placer was Ron Wilson, who finished fourth in the weight throw...
Died. Mark DeWolfe Howe, 60, professor of constitutional law at Harvard, who served his apprenticeship as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (whose life he later chronicled in a definitive biography), went on to become one of the nation's foremost legal historians and teachers and an indefatigable campaigner for civil liberties and rights; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass...
...courageous in the quest of his ideals? One of the many stories told of him yesterday in this city may catch the quality of his influence. A student whose fervor for a certain cause of civil liberty had been dampened by the shrillness of its adherents went to hear Howe defend it. To the student it seemed that every word was a fiery dart of reasoned anger that pierced beyond all doubts. Possibly Mark Howe never guessed how many there were whose hearts he touched with fire because they sensed in him the best they might hope to bring...