Word: professor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the family of the great Prince Potemkin, adviser to and lover of Catherine the Great, in Tsarist days Vice Commissar Potemkin was a professor of mathematics, later went into the diplomatic service. As Ambassador to Italy he became known for his knowledge of Roman antiquities and in France he helped negotiate the French-Soviet mutual aid pact. He is tall, distinguished in appearance, a good linguist. Colonel Beck welcomed the Vice Commissar, and Comrade Potemkin, according to the Warsaw press, picked up from Colonel Beck enlightening details on a deal which Herr Hitler had tried to make some...
...from the League of Nations Council session meeting late this month. The Poles want no mediation at Geneva, either. Danzig affairs are handled at the League by a committee of three: Britain, France and Sweden. The League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig is Dr. Karl Burckhardt, a Swiss professor of law whom Führer Hitler, in his last speech, called "incidentally a man of extraordinary tact." Dr. Burckhardt's "tact" consists largely of a do-nothing silence. Unlike his predecessor, fiery Sean Lester of Eire, who barked long and hard about the Nazis' repeated violations...
Psychologist Knight Dunlap (to University of California), French Professor Gilbert Chinard (to University of California, then to Princeton), Philosopher Arthur O. Lovejoy (retired). The Sun was dismayed at the gaps they left in the traditionally brilliant Hopkins faculty. But it was shocked much more at a new resignation just announced by President Isaiah Bowman, who soon afterward left town for a vacation: that of famed Economist Broadus Mitchell...
...also express our dissent with his valuation of another teacher with whom we happen to be acquainted. We feel that Professor Chamberlain is not only a good, but an excellent teacher, who in 101 made a subject of much inherent difficulty consistently interesting, and sometimes intriguing. He is, as clearly, outstanding in fairness and friendliness. Mr. Bunde probably much underestimates the continuing value of Professor Chamberlin's work in Monopolistic Competition...
...gift is for a trial period of three years, after which it may be extended. Paul J. Sachs, professor of Fine Arts and Associate Director of the Fogg Art Museum, will chairman the fellowship committee of seven...