Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also now to the Radcliffe administrative staff as Radcliffe College Librarian is Miss Ruth K. Porritt, whose appointment was announced during the summer...
Last week, at the behest of Congress' Library Committee, Librarian Luther H. Evans announced that the library will discontinue all prizes for art, music and literature. "We think it's a bad policy for the Government...to be giving prizes and awards," explained the committee, "particularly in matters of taste...
...Frank Learoyd Boyden of Foxboro, Mass, did do. That fall of 1902, just out of Amherst himself, he took over the 103-year-old school, then partially town-supported, with its enrollment of 14 students. He taught every thing from Latin to math, coached athletics and served as town librarian on the side. The town soon learned that there was something different about the kindly young schoolmaster in the somber black suit. Fractious kids jumped to obey him; backward boys seemed to brighten. Even old Deacon Greenough was won over. He started coming over to dinner every Sunday night, bringing...
...Trustees on July 21. He spoke to the Board for two hours, and during this session the Board decided to dismiss two central figures in the "Olivet Policy," Professor T. Barton Akeley, who had taught political science at the college for 12 years, and his wife, the college librarian...
...same day Mrs. Akeley received a letter telling her that the Board had unanimously decided that "it does not desire to have you resume work as Librarian at the College...