Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calling of Professor Charles Kingsley Webster to the chair of International History at the London School of Economics will be especially felt by the many who appreciated the unique position he held in the History Department at Harvard. The qualities by which he impressed the Freshmen in History 1 and the graduates in History 29 were not always identical, but they were always virile and arresting. In essence they sprang from his ability to interpret history in terms of human motives, a talent which many lecturers inadvertently bury in the leaves of ancient volumes...
Charles Kingsley Webster, professor of History, has recently been invited to take the Nathaniel Stevenson Chair of International History at the London School of Economics, which is closely connected with Kings College of London University. Professor Webster will assume the position in September...
Professor Webster received his education at Kings College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar from 1904 to 1909, and a fellow for a short time thereafter. From 1914 to 1922 he served as professor of Modern History at Liverpool University with interruptions in 1917 and 1918 when he served as a member of the General Staff of the War Office, and in 1918 and 1919 when he attended the Conference of Paris as a military delegate...
Since 1922 he has been professor of International Politics at the University of Wales at Aberysywyth, Cardiganshire. He is the author of several important works, among which are: "A Study of Nineteenth Century Diplomacy," "European Alliances", and his most recent work published in 1931. "Foreign Policy of Castlereagh." Professor Webster is a native Englishman, born in Liverpool...
Cosmic rays may be evidence of cosmic construction (Millikan theory) or cosmic disintegration (Jeans theory). They may be the neutrons which Dr. James Chadwick of Cambridge University found bombarded out of beryllium (TIME, March 7) and which Dr. H. C. Webster of the University of Bristol last week reported that he had knocked from boron and fluorine...