Word: professor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...third of the 1918-19 series of organ recitals given alternately in Appleton Chapel and in the Chapel of the Andover Theological Seminary will be held in Appleton Chapel at 8.15 o'clock this evening. The program will be presented by Professor A. T. Davison '06, organist and choir master, assisted by Miss Helen C. Curtis '22, and Miss Ruth E. Austen '22, Radcliffe College, Violinists. The recital is open to the public...
...Treasure Room of Widener Library Professor C. N. Greenough is exhibiting in connection with his course, English 33, a collection of early editions of books important in American literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The exhibition will probably continue through the week...
...gives vigor to an university. The trick of professional dignity lies in the secret of poverty, which ensures, among discriminating people, simplicity and refinement. The distinction of frugality is the scholar's bulwark: raise it, and he is at the mercy of the horrid monotony of capitalist vulgarity. A professor is admitted to polite society not by dint of theatre parties and champagne, but simply because bourgeoisie and Philistines are in mortal terror of his intellect. Money-grubbers and little-brothers-to-the-rich feel in his indigence a power which deprives them of breath. It is part...
...want to shield the professor from our cruel world. Closet scholarship is unavailing in a commercial civilization. The thinker must be in vital touch with the magnificent display of energy precious souls term materialism. But high pay is no means to this end. It creates a barrier where we want a bridge. Salaries higher than a living-wage detach from life: only serious work and sacrifice pay in the end. JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT...
...Professor F. W. Taussig '79, chairman of the Federal Tariff Commission, was directed last week by President Wilson to proceed abroad for service in connection with the peace negotiations in Paris, and has already sailed. The Commission has made a study of the tariff relations between the United States and other countries, and it is assumed that Professor Taussig will be asked to advise the American representatives in regard to the commercial features of the treaty...