Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your baby," says President Kingman Brewster when he appoints a new master to one of Yale's twelve residential colleges. "You take the college where you want it to go." Last week, breaking the tradition of choosing masters from the academic world, Brewster named John Hersey, 50, master of Pierson College, in an experiment to find where a nonacademic novelist and journalist will want a college...
...like the Harvard "houses," were organized in the early 1930s to form small academic and social communities within the increasingly impersonal hustle of the modern university. At both universities the college system, its evolution slowed by World War II and the aftermath, is still in flux, and each new master has an opportunity to shape its eventual pattern. Counselor and friend, social leader and intellectual mentor, the master presides over the college's 300 to 400 students from his house in the quadrangle. His personality becomes the college's, and realizes or denies the original ideal...
Porter, who will retire as master of Pierson when Hersey takes over in July. Brewster admitted that it was "seemingly" a departure from Yale tradition, yet denied any conscious effort to break the pattern: "I was just looking for the man who could do the best...
...Treasurer of Harvard College, who herded the endowment over the billion dollar mark earlier this year; Charles Allerton Coolidge '17, retiring Senior Fellow of the Corporation; William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History, Emeritus; C. Day Lewis; C. H. Taylor, retiring Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History and Master of Kirkland House; John Coolidge '35, director of the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum; Philip Hofer, free, white and '21, Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts in the College Library; Governor John A. Volpe; Msgr. Francis J. Lally, editor of the Pilot, organ of the archdiocese; Jacques Barzun; Gov. Elliot...
...master of novices at Japan's Jesuit novitiate six miles outside Hiroshima. At 8:15 a.m. novitiate windows were shattered by a violent blast. Soon after, refugees began streaming from the city, and Father Arrupe made some sort of history by organizing one of the first medical supply teams ever to aid an atom-bombed city. In 1954, he was named Jesuit vice provincial for Japan, and four years later, after Japan was elevated to a full Jesuit province, became provincial...