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According to the "Daily Maroon," Chicago University campus newspaper, Professor Charles E. Merriam of the Chicago Political Science Department is Harvard-bound. The name of the sixty-six year old professor is reported to have been submitted to the Harvard Corporation, but the "Maroon" indicates that no final action has yet been taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHICAGO TEACHER MAY COME HERE NEXT YEAR | 3/20/1940 | See Source »

Emperor. Only 49, a small, keen-eyed, fast-thinking, tireless, eloquent Yankee, Vannevar ("Van") Bush year ago stepped into the presidential shoes of Dr. John Campbell Merriam (who is officially retired but continues his own researches in paleontology). Dr. Bush takes his new job in his stride. Besides learning the ropes of the Carnegie Institution, he finds time to chairman the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and the National Academy of Sciences' division of engineering. Besides, he loves symphonies, himself flutes, hunts, sails, quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard. In New Hampshire he has a farm where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Empire & Emperor | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...Bill Merriam, Pennsylvania's veteran coach, figures that this team will be stronger in the back stroke and distance swims, a little better in the breast stroke and slightly weaker in the sprints and dive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red and Blue Is Ready For Tough Season | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

...Charlie Hutter, will take time off from his Medical School studies to compete in the sprint events, while his perpetual Alumni-meet rival, George "24-second" Scott, plans to thrash out a mighty 50 yards. Rusty Greenhood, last year's captain and League champion diver, will team with Bun Merriam, another former Crimson star, to features the strongest Alumni springboard pair in many years...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...Merriam, Douglas Cochrane, and Barelay Cooke are the second offensive trio, while Stewart Iglehart and John Thomas will alternate at defense

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: HOCKEY TEAM OPENS SCHEDULE TONIGHT | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

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