Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Powers & Poland. Wellesley, in the first year of Margaret Clapp's reign, has a faculty of 130 single women, 28 married women and 53 men. Some are noted in their fields-Johnsonian Scholar Katharine Balderston for her Thraliana, Pulitzer Prizewinner Ola Elizabeth Winslow for her Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, Psychologist Edna Heidbreder for her Seven Psychologies. One professor, Mary Ellen Goodman (sociology), is a former Powers model; another, Waclaw Jedrzejewicz (Russian) was a prewar Polish minister of education...
...longest-term resident was Professor George Herbert Palmer, whence the second half of the building's name. Palmer, a well-known classical scholar who claimed genially that he "existed on the decay of Greece," lived there from 1894 until 1933. On his initiative, the astronomer's "caboose" was finally taken off the roof and some of the interior remodelled. Dean Gummere used the building for a few years before the war, and after Pearl Harbor, when the Navy moved into President Conant's house, President Conant moved into the Dana Palmer house. He moved out just before it migrated across...
...fund was established in 1913 by friends of Burr, an outstanding athlete, 'scholar, and student leader. Previous recipients have included John P. Chase '28, now coach of the hockey team, all-American Barry Wood '32, and Paul Knapluth '49, last year's crew captain...
Professor Hammond reminisced about his own days as a Rhodes Scholar and then told about the 32 awards available each year providing American students with approximately two years at Oxford...
...inability of the university to secure the services of Professor Glen Shortliffe of Queens University is extremely unfortunate. In the judgment of his colleague in the field of Romance languages, Professor Shortliffe is an excellent teacher, a promising scholar and a man of the finest qualifications of citizenship and character...