Word: whittlesey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he retired in 1950, two years after his father's death, his younger brother, Curtis Whittlesey McGraw (Princeton '20), stepped into the job. Still called "Hack" from football days (he captained Princeton's '19 team), burly (6 ft. 2½ in., 210 lbs.) President McGraw, 57, is as gregarious as his brother was reserved, delegates authority to his top aides, Publications Boss Paul Montgomery, Executive Vice President Willard Chevalier, and Editorial Director Smith, lets the magazines run their own shows...
Edward S. Mason, dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, will lecture today on "Raw Materials and National Power." On Friday Derwent S. Whittlesey, professor of Geography, will lecture on "Geography in World Affairs...
...departure means that there will be only one professional geoprapher--Derwent S. Whittlesey--to work with the neighboring departments. Whittlesey gives, in alternate years, a total of six half-courses for College students...
Geography, as a field of concentration, had only one permanent position which had been filled for many years by Professor Derwent S. Whittlesey. But in 1948 with administration approval, the machinery started to name a new associate professor, a permanent position...
After this group had approved Ackerman's promotion, the administration announced that there no longer was a vacancy in geography to be filled. With no permanent position open for a young teacher, all geographers had to look on a job at Harvard--until Whittlesey neared retirement--as only a temporary stopping-place to a lifetime professorship...