Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Classical scholar is married, and is an Episcopalian. He is chairman of the Committee of Liberal College Education of the Association of American Colleges...
Others quitting their College positions include Clarence H. Haring '07, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics and former Rhodes Scholar: Wilhelm R. Koehler, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, who served as a Senior Fellow in charge of Research at Dumbarton Oaks from 1941-44; Clarence I. Lewis '06, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, former president of the American Philosophical Association and author of "Mind and World Order"; Richard von Mises, Gordon McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics and internationally known for his work in fluid mechanics, elasticity, and statistical probability; and Chester...
...teach at Syracuse University. The rest of the time he pads about in beret and white smock, puffing king-sized cigarettes and working furiously at a whole array of statues. For the University of Vienna, Mestrovic is modeling a portrait bust in plaster of the famed Croatian scholar, Vatroslav Jagic (1838-1923); he has just shipped off a 6-ft. bronze of St. Anthony for Oxford University; and he is working on a full-scale model of a statue as a gift for the people of his homeland, honoring Montenegro's 19th century poet and prince-bishop, Petar Njegos...
...brothers all attended Connecticut's Hotchkiss School, and in summer, worked in the Rouge or other plants getting their hands greasy. They kept up this apprenticeship during college. None was an outstanding scholar. Henry quit Yale in his senior year ('40) with insufficient credits to graduate, and Benson, a sophomore, quit Princeton the same year. Only Billy (Yale '50) graduated...
...Cambridge, Jakobson and his wife have settled in an apartment on Prescott Street. Typical of a scholar's living quarters, the flat's living room is dominated by a massive desk littered with papers. Books scattered through the room are beginnings to collect under the windows. At night, all the local Slavic students trickle into the apartment for little chats with Jakobson; they stop in with a question, to solicit encouragement, or to draw Jakobson into an illuminating discussion. Employing his unbelievable energy even in conversation, he gesticulates constantly, emphasizing his remarks with a stab of his hand...