Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today also, the alumni will join students at the annual Phi Beta Kappa Parade and Exercises in Sanders Theatre at 11 a.m. I. A. Richards, University Professor, and Henry A. Murray, professor of Clinical Psychology, will deliver the poem and Oration...
George M.A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts, will lead a party of fourteen in futher excavation efforts at Sardis, Turkey. Hanfmann's group made an exceptional find last year when they discovered a potter's workshop dating from the time of the Lydian kings...
...Master's degree has a second, more symbolic purpose at Harvard. The ranks of the professors are traditionally somewhat chilly toward colleagues from other institutions. And so, "ut in grege nostro numeretur," each Assistant Professor gaining tenure receives an M.A. Since 1942, this degree has been awarded automatically unless the new Associate Professor has already earned his M.A. at the University...
...eleven years-36 pieces ranging from iron forms forged in Japan to towering monoliths in the famous Pentelic marble of Greece. Almost too many influences are detectable in Noguchi's works, ranging from the rock gardens he knew in his boyhood in Japan (his father was a Japanese professor of English literature at Keio University, his mother an American) to his apprenticeship under Rumanian-born Constantin Brancusi. But Noguchi has managed to create a whole range of forms recognizably...
...most of his work is to be seen only in Spain. But the very fact that Spain is woefully short on steel supplied the driving force behind Torroja's exploration of concrete as a material that could be both cheap and strong. The son of a Catalan mathematics professor, Torroja trained as an engineer at Madrid University, then worked for five years as a contractor before finally deciding that "the structure of concrete cannot be figured mathematically-it is much stronger than the mathematician can prove, and you can't wait for the mathematician. You have...