Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred Norris Robinson, Gurney Professor of English Literature, and Louis Allard, Professor of French, will retire from active teaching at the end of this academic year, it was announced by the University yesterday afternoon...
...this or its next fortnightly meeting will be the problem of appointing men to fill two vacant chairs in the English Department. These are the Francis Lee Higginson Professorship, recently vacated by John L. Lowes '05, and the Gurney Professorship of English Literature, rumored vacated by Fred N. Robinson...
...believed that the probable recipient of the Francis Lee Higginson professorship will be Professor Rollins, who has taken over all of Professor Lowes' courses. Rumor also names Professor Magoun, who will take Professor Robinson's courses, or Professor Murdock to succeed to the Gurney professorship...
...York, Florida, Massachusetts and Texas each wanted a taxable slice of the $36,000.000 kitty left when, nearly three years ago, Death came to peg-legged, pleasure-loving Colonel Edward Howland Robinson ("Ned") Green, son of that fabulous old miser, Hetty Green. Colonel Green, who liked to fly his own blimp, collect jigsaw puzzles, jiggle pocketfuls of diamonds, buy "anything that snapped," maintained residences at one time or another in all four States. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court settled the matter by deciding that $5,000,000 should go to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, because Colonel Green "spent...
...seconds off his time would have bettered every 800-meter and 880-yard mark in the books. The official 800-meter world record of 1:49.6 is held by Elroy Robinson, but is about to be replaced by Sydney Wooderson's 1:48.4 of last summer.* For the half mile, Wooderson's 1:49.2 is the pending record...