Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without a laboratory, the scientist cannot be fully satisfied in his retirement. "The professor in the humanities or social sciences is lucky," says Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, "all he needs is a pencil, paper, and a study. Losing my study would be like losing my right arm." Professor Schelsinger, unlike Bridgman, retired at the earliest possible date in order to be able to do the work he has always wanted...
...this series, Professor Wolfson traces the growth and interrelationship of Greek, Hebrew, Moslem and Christian pholosophies. All 12 volumes have been written, five have already been published and two more are almost realy for the printer. Wolfson writes all his manuscripts out in longhand ("I'm old fashioned") and then puts them away in the huge file cabinets that adorn his study. When the rough draft of the entire series was written, Wolfson began the slow process of revising each manuscript, some of which he claims not to have looked at in over ten years. But all the rough drafts...
They came at a bad time. Exams had absorbed the attention of all but self-styled student leader types, and "internationally-minded" undergraduates anxious to demonstrate that they were not land-locked intellectually in the green campuses of the middle west. Those who did attend the meetings heard M. Aitchalal, a small, wiry-mustached man, who speaks with passion, but not violence, about a cause to which he is entirely committed...
...Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, and chairman of the committee to choose a successor to President Wilbur K. Jordan, declined last night to comment on the report of Mrs. Bunting's selection. "I have no comment--either to confirm or deny," Schlesinger said...
...this time it will be different," Hanfstaengl declares. "I expect to have a swell time, and get a warm welcome. Why not? I'm as anti-Nazi now as they come...