Word: jewett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fund drive, "The only place in the world to do graduate study in the theology of the Orthodox Church, principal religious group of Russia and the Middle East." Students in the Byzantine-Middle Eastern program will be able to use such facilities as the Russian Research Center and the Jewett, Hancock, Littauer, and Fry professorships. Newly-appointed University Professor Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, world-famed Oxford authority on the Middle East, may also give courses of Islam...
Gibb, who will also serve as the Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, will take a large part in research and teaching in the Center of Middle Eastern Studies, President Pusey said yesterday...
Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, J. A. C. Fagginer Auer, Parkman Professor of Theology, and William Thomson, Jewett Professor of Arabic, leave the faculty on July 1 because of age. Cadbury is 71, Auer 72, and Thomson 66. While the regular retirement age is 65, professors are often given considerable tenure extensions...
...tests cover everything from trape-zoids to Tom Paine, from spelling (acqui-esence, acquiescence, aquiescence, acqui-esance) to literature ("What Joseph Lincoln did for Cape Cod, Sarah Orne Jewett did for 1) Florida, 2) Maine, 3) Oregon, 4) Michigan"). But just knowing the usual subjects is far from enough. To test their intelligence, the Point also presents candidates with a whole new bogus language that changes from year to year...
...young person come in for personal counsel. Then one night I talked about what I've been learning these last two years-dynamic psychiatry. The next week seven young people came in for personal talks, and they've been coming ever since . . ." To the Rev. Walter L. Jewett of Centenary Methodist Church in Beatrice, Neb. (pop. 11,813), the group has "meant a reorientation of my entire life. Why, I used to be mad all the time-and I never realized it ... I'd been preaching for 25 years, and I had no adequate idea...