Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was teaching about Sam Johnson, Professor Chauncey Tinker seemed a good deal like the great Samuel himself. He was a crisp and courtly figure, far from the "man of most dreadful appearance" Boswell wrote about, but he spoke in coffee-house prose, and like Johnson, he knew how to command attention. For more than 25 years, Chauncey Brewster Tinker's Yale classroom was one of the two or three most popular on campus...
...shall be remembered," Chauncey Tinker once remarked with a wave of his hand, "for my students. These are my jewels." Last week, four years after his retirement from teaching, old (72) Professor Tinker knew just how rich in jewels he was. Thirty-seven of them, who had gone on to become professors themselves, had written a book in his honor and handed it to him at a dinner. Appropriately, the book was a collection of their own scholarly essays on Tinker's Century. The title, affectionately lifted from Tink's old course, was The Age of Johnson (Yale...
...girls nominated this week include Luretta Davis, Raquel Heller, Mary Lou Buckley, Donna Cook, Barbara Heanue, Ruth Reichart, all of them senior class officers, Mary Bruchholz, Alice Gilbert, Winifred Libbon, Joan McPartlin, Joan Projansky, Francena Thomas, Irene Tinker, and Suzanne Watson...
Spring term activities for Radcliffe's NSA chapter get under way today at 3 p.m. in Longfellow 13 with a discussion of NSA projects on the international, regional, and Cambridge levels by Rob West, NSA international vice-president; Alice Gilbert '49, NSA Regional Chairman; and Irene Tinker '49, Radcliffe NSA delegate...
...Irene Tinker '49 was unanimously chosen to replace Miss Hall as Annex representative to NSA until new elections can be held late next month. Council appointed its president, Joan Projansky '49, as NSA alternate, the post previously held by Miss Tinker...