Word: professor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason why the advocates of the repeal of the Volstead Act are so agitated at the present time is because they have hurled a definite challenge at President Hoover," said Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, when asked to comment on statements made in behalf of Prohibition by Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist, in a recent address. "If he succeeds in improving conditions as they are, and materially cutting down the evil as it now exists, the main argument of the wets will be gone. They have been hurling the lack of enforcement into the faces...
...Voyage of Magellan". Professor Usher, Widener...
...Ethics of Naturalism". Professor Hocking, Emerson...
...Archimedes' Principle", Professor Black, Jefferson Phys...
George Herbert Palmer remains almost alone of the great generation of men like Royce and Santayana, that surrounded President Eliot during the early years of his administration. In a very real sense, Professor Palmer is a powerful bond connecting the little New England college of the seventies with the University of today. He is one who grew with the growth of Harvard; who saw, the while his own name attained distinction, the institution he represented increasing likewise in influence and renown. His life through the years of his active teaching here ran a course of development parallel to that...