Word: professor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Harvard A. I. L. has been making plans for its first membership meeting in order to outline future policy and to elect officers. Donald C. McKay, assistant professor of History, will speak at the rally to be held at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening in Emerson...
Igor Strawinsky, noted Russian composer, will give a free public lecture, in French, tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. This is the first of Mr. Strawinsky's series of six lectures at Harvard as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...
...these firings, President Conant was taken to task by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and the Teachers Union. When Professor Harold Hitchings Burbank, head of the economics department, quit the University, the campus believed he did so as a protest, although he denied it. Last week there were other open protests besides the Progressive's, which cried that the "strange case of the assistant professors" was "more disquieting . . . than the cases of previous years. . . . Harvard education itself is at stake. . . . The disregard for undergraduate teaching, the attack on faculty security and morale, the flouting of academic democracy...
Prominent undergraduates formed a "Student Committee to Save Harvard Education," got an approving send-off from the Crimson. Meanwhile Harvard's entire faculty began to hold extraordinary sessions behind closed doors to debate the affair. Conservative Harvard sentiment was summed up by Mathematics Professor Marshall Harvey Stone, son of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone: "I believe the situation now existing is unhealthy to the point of gravity...
Brainstorms. Many unusual forms of epilepsy are often passed by unnoticed, believes Dr. Richard Max Brickner. Remarkable is the case of "D," a 77-year-old college professor, who, when he opened his eyes in the morning, was often assailed by a violent hurricane of fantastic, guilty and obscene thoughts. Although he would try with all his might, D would be unable to get a sane thought in edgewise." Sometimes within half an hour, often within a day, his brainstorms would abate, leaving him depressed but self controlled. Strangely enough, he had no convulsive movements, would lie passively...