Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as the Administration works through University Hall, the Faculty conducts much of its routine business through department chairmen. Unlike most colleges, Harvard's chairmen are generally not the top-most men in each department. They are instead men mid-way on the academic ladder who will take on the paper work of running an office; rarely does a department chairman serve more than three or four years...
...performing post-mortems in a pathological laboratory, he returned to Michigan for his A.B. A doctorate from the University of Chicago and an assistant professorship from Brown University followed quickly. Then Harvard spotted the young scientist and, in 1927, appointed him an assistant professor of Zoology. Ascending the professorial ladder as if it were just so many vertebrae, he became associate professor in 1929 and a full professor and chairman of the department...
Such was the Restoration pattern-up the ladder, down the ladder, in a maze of political and bedroom intrigues. The two latest Restoration biographies-one on George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, the other on John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester-are not merely complementary, they are like reading the same crazy story twice...
Three of the standouts of that squad Charlie Ufford, Dave Watts, and Art French--graduated, but they have been replaced on the top twelve by four relatively inexperienced, yet rapidly improving sophomores. Two of them, Ham Gravem and Brooks Harris, currently top the constantly fluctuating varsity ladder...
Without Haegler, the single ladder shows Ham Gravem, Captain John Rauh, Gene Mann, Brooks Harris, Don Bossart, Donn Spencer, Terry King, Herb Stone, Conrad Fischer, Frank Goodman, Maynard Canfield, and Doug Manchester, in that order. The tentative doubles lineup includes Haegler and Rauh, Harris and Gravem, plus Bossart and Spencer or King and Stone. Bossart teamed with Rauh at first doubles in some matches on the trip...