Word: whittlesey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death of world-respected Professor Derwent S. Whittlesey leaves Harvard without a faculty member to teach geography. His death may mark the end of geography at the University, for although Professor Whittlesey had announced that he would retire this June, the Administration reportedly had taken no steps to replace...
This would be extremely unfortunate, for as Professor Whittlesey consistently advocated, geography has an important role in education as a whole, and at Harvard. A graduate committee organized in 1948 to examine the problem concluded that geographic training and advice is needed in nine other fields, including history, economics, and anthropology. It thought geography "The first essential basis of any area study," and many here are engaged in regional studies. Geography is an essential part of history, but while history's perspective is that of time, geography views societies in relation to the space they inhabit. This viewpoint has great...
...clock: Would-be lion hunters will fund Geography 152, the Geography of Africa, a helpful course. Professor Whittlesey's safari leaves from Room 43 in the Geological Museum. Fine Arts 75, held in the Fogg Small Lecture Room, is restricted to people who have taken no previous Fine Arts course. But it is, the Fine Arts department insists, limited to the Masters of Modern...
Germany and France will be at it once again, and all because there are no mountains between them, as Professor Whittlesey discusses "The Environmental Foundations of Political Society" in Geological Museum 43 this term. "Geography 117" will also take a peek at the world's geographical future, and will undoubtedly conclude that there's just nothing to be done about straightening out Europe's boundaries...
Died. Curtis Whittlesey McGraw, 57, president and board chairman of McGraw-Hill, world's largest publishers of technical, scientific and business books and periodicals (Business Week, Aviation Week, American Machinist), son of Founder James H. McGraw; of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan...