Word: sizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administrational assistant of the School of Education, George T. Sizer, predicted last night that Lawrence Hall, Batchelder House, and Peabody House would have to be torn down. Describing these buildings, which lie between Litauer and New Lecture Hall, as "wrecks," he explained that their destruction would provide "plenty of room" for both an Education and a Behavioral Sciences Building...
...time Theodore Sizer, professor at Yale of the history of art, was to lecture to thousands of audiences-but none ever considered itself captive. Sizer not only became a leading authority on American art, he also grew into something of a legend. Last week, at 65, as he prepared to retire from teaching, he was already as much a part of Yale lore as John ("Daily Themes") Berdan, William Lyon Phelps and the crotchety Johnsonian, Chauncey Brewster Tinker...
Majestic Sight. Born in Manhattan, Sizer graduated from Harvard in 1916, went to Yale in 1927 after serving as curator of the Cleveland Museum of Art and lecturing at Western Reserve. An imposing man with a massive mustache, he soon made his mark in New Haven. His particular hero was the Revolutionary painter John Trumbull, and, like Colonel Trumbull, he seemed to come straight out of the 18th century. In those days, Sizer once said, "things were done in real style." In his own way he tried to keep that style alive. Few sights were more impressive than that...
...waitress who was retiring from one of the residential colleges. Last week, as news of his own retirement spread, he was absorbed in another sort of activity-reading the scores of letters from former students whom he had "set on fire." "Mostly sob stuff!" said Theodore Sizer gruffly, but it was obvious that he would not soon forget those letters, or their authors...
...Country Boy. He graduated, from Yale Law School in 1927, and was a good lawyer right from the beginning. He turned out to have a special way with juries that brought him a bid from the topflight Chattanooga law firm of Sizer and Chambliss. "Keef handled a jury like a country boy," said one of his ex-partners recently. "He would establish himself as a country boy, then recite the facts and lead the jury along. He used language the jurors could understand. He never tried to be eloquent or quoted poetry...