Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Milwaukee and educated at the University of Wisconsin, Frederick Merk quite naturally followed in the footsteps of Turner, 1893 author of the attitude - smashing "Significance of the Frontier in American History," for the latter had been a professor at Wisconsin. His influence there was profound even before it spread throughout the "corpus of American history teaching," says Professor Merk, who, when he came to Harvard in 1918, found Turner here and worked in his seminar. In 1921 he began to teach what is now History 62, sharing it with his older colleague. Along with teaching the first half...
...basketball coach is expected to arrive in Cambridge today, and Bingham said last night that he hopes to introduce the new mentor to Varsity basketball latter-winners as soon as possible. It is expected that Barclay will institute practice sessions shortly after his arrival...
...length of the store, are absolutely certain to make the acquaintance of Abraham Isenstadt, the proprietor of the establishment. Mr. Isenstadt, no shrinking violet in any of his thirty-nine years, first dabbled seriously at bookselling while attending Boston University and the BU Law School. After graduating from the latter and being admitted to the Massachusetts bar, he elected not to practice law but instead went into the book business. Since then, Mr. I. has acquired a huge stock of assorted writings that fills the basement of his Boylston Street store and that of a neighboring barber shop, in addition...
...immigration to 150,000, with individual nations held to a number proportional to their representation in the total 1920 United States population. However, the "Anglo-Saxons" and "Nordies" received a disproportionately large slice, for other Europeans were considered to be relatively inferior and undesirable. The emigration motivations of the latter were thought to be economic rather than religious or political. Unskilled and numerous, they appeared to menace full employment, the standard of living, and the assimilation process. A popular political bandwagon to jump on in 1924, restricted immigration appealed at once to lunatic fringe racists, the Southern-gentryeld-aristocrat groups...
...cope with the increased number of students several departments are either faced with expansion or are relying on the return of staff members directly engaged with the war effort. In this latter class come General Georges P. Dorlot, professor of Industrial Management, who was most recently Chief of General Elsenbower's War Plans Division; and Colonel George P. Baker '25, associate professor of Transportation, who served on the staff of Acting Secretary of State Will Clayton...