Word: profs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...childish, but a Senior Society or an Eating Club is sacred . . . that whoever interests himself in progressivism or radicalism probably hasn't bathed for weeks, that a Phi Beta Kappa winner is either a major trickster or a greasy grind, and no compromise about it; that a prof under forty-five is a fellow who couldn't make a business success in the boom era, while a prof over forty-five is a harmless oracle . . .", et cetera. But to these axioms if Mr. Hale will add that supremely ubiquitous one about ". . . it's the friendships you make," he will have...
...Chicago Tribune headlined Sir William's appointment: MIDWAY SIGNS LIMEY PROF TO DOPE YANK TALK...
...Tercentenary celebration in which Harvard can take just pride is the Conference of Arts and Sciences. Here the foremost scholars of the world have gathered in Cambridge to hold the most spectacular intellectual symposium of modern times. The explanation of their respective countries and peoples given by Prof. Anesaki of Japan and Dr. HuShin of China; the glimpses into industrialism of the future disclosed by Dr. Bergius; and the startling possibilities of the work done in biological chemistry by such men as Ruzicka of Switzerland; are the parts of the Tercentenary to be permanently remembered. The flattery of Boston newspapers...
...Prof. Dr. jur. Dr. med. M. H. Goring...
...Chicago Tribune thus headlined Sir William's appointment: MIDWAY SIGNS LIMEY PROF. TO DOPE YANK TALK *As an instance of British borrowins;, Mencken cites the fact that "the London Daily Express has lifted the whole vocabulary of the American newsweekly, TIME, and adopted even its eccentric syntax...