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Betty Bagby '52; Marie Beaupre; Marie Boissevain '53; Lorna Briggs '55; Gwen Brigham '53; Ginny Dahr '55; Rusty Flinton '55; Fay Frenning '55; Pricilla High '53; April Hodges '55; Danny Holmgren '55; Gabrielle Iglesias '55; Rachel Mellinger '52; Daphne Merriam '52; Fay Pratt '52; Judy Raff '55; Margot Ravage '55; Sandi Rosman '55; Janet Titus '55; Teddy Train...
...Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Harold C. Urey, a D.Sc.; to Sociologist Robert M. Maclver, an L.H.D.; to Political Scientist Charles E. Merriam, a Litt.D.; to Psychologist Edward C. Tolman, a D.Sc.; to Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Percy W. Bridgman, a D.Sc.; to Astronomer Henry Norris Russell, a D.Sc.; to Philosopher John Dewey, a Litt.D.-all from Yale University...
Among previous Godkin Lectures have been Harold E. Stassen, ex-Governor of Minnesota and president of the University of Pennsylvania; Robert Moses, Commissioner of Parks of New York City; Professor Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago; and Australian economist D. B. Copeland...
Thirteen years had passed since the G. & C. Merriam Co. had published its fifth-edition Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. But Americans had not stopped talking. They had talked so much and so freely that they had kept twelve editors busy listening to all the new noises they made. Last week, with the publication of a brand-new edition ($6 and up), a lot of U.S. talk became official...
...Merriam-Webster editors started collecting words in common use right after their last edition came out. Whenever they spotted or heard a new one, they immediately filled out a "citation slip" on it. Words that didn't get enough slips (e.g., car park) were put back in the file again, perhaps for next time...