Word: professors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professor Retain Studies...
Perhaps the most valuable part of the retirement plan however is the custom of allowing out-going professors to retain their studies in Widener where they have easy access to all facilities of the library. Although there is no guarantee that a professor may keep his study, tradition is very strong and few retiring professors are ever forced to vacate the stacks...
Widener 417, the study of Samuel Eliot Morison, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Emeritus, is a veritable beehive of activity. Not only is the small office crowded with file cabinets and books, but it is used by a secretary and a research assistant as well as the professor...
...this same vein, Morison has just finished a biography of John Paul Jones. Entitled John Paul Jones: a Sailor's Biography, the publisher's proofs sit on the professor's desk awaiting final touches. The volume will be a Book of the Month Club selection, although the professor does not yet know when it will be published. Currently Morison is actively engaged in writing a single-volume history of the United States entitled The Oxford History of the American People...
...direct contrast to the dynamic, organized atmosphere of Morison's office is the famous study of Harry Wolfson, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Emeritus, where he works all day, every day in scholarly solitude. Teeming with books, manuscriupts, old journals and the like, Wolfson's much discussed office defies description...