Word: sheff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Artist Artzyba-sheff's cover background was a symbolization of today's airway bridges between the continents-and he did not ask permission to enter his native country where he pleased...
Since Silliman's day, Sheffield has done a great deal of pioneering in science's black arts. "Sheff" taught the first U.S. courses in geology, paleontology, physiological chemistry, established the nation's first agricultural experiment station. It was the first U.S. school to provide a post-graduate course for the Ph.D. degree. Then crusty old Elias Loomis pioneered in devising the basis for modern weather maps and Bertram Boltwood discovered ionium. Sheffield's most famous teacher: Josiah Willard Gibbs, the top mathematical physicist of his day, who laid down the laws which form the basis...
Generations of Yale Sheffield Scientific School students, inhabitants of what used to be known in New Haven as "Darkest Sheff." had the luck to take their Engish Lit. with Professor Wilbur L. Cross the salty pedagogue who became a four-term Democratic Governor of Connecticut after his academic retirement in 1930. What the Sheff boys ostensibly got was a dose of Chaucer, the usual Shakespeare, and a ponderable amount of reading in the 18th-Century worthies. Henry Fielding and the "lousy parson," the Rev. Laurence Sterne. But what Wilbur Cross really gave the boys was a liberal education...