Word: william
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Gordon Bennet Prize went to Lee B. McTurnan '59 for his thesis "The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association: A Study in Group Politics;" the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize to Guido G. Goldwin '59 for "Zionism under Soviet Rule;" and the Eric Firth Prize to Isaac Kramnick '59 for "William Godwin: The Enlightenment and Political Philosophy...
Three vice-Presidents were also elected to serve with Reardon. They are Henry J. Friendly '23 of New York City, recently appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; George A. Morison '00 of Peterborough, N.H.; and William T. Reid Jr. '01 of Boston...
...account of the long history of honorary degrees at Harvard, there is no real agreement on the first recipient of a special award. Intellectual historians point to Nathaniel Appleton, a Cambridge minister who received the S.T.D. in 1771, as the first undisputed honorary doctor. They eliminate seventeenth-century tutors William Brattle and John Leverett, for they were required to prepare a "Theological" dissertation; President Mather received his award to enhance his position atop the Harvard hierarchy...
Died. Sir David William Bone, 84, British master mariner who went to sea at 15, commanded troopships under fire in two wars (last to leave the torpedoed transport Cameronia in World War I, he grabbed the stay of a destroyer alongside as his ship sank), wrote several books about the sea (The Brassbounder, The Queerfella); in Farnham, England...
Bevington, who will have tutees both in Moors and Kirkland next year, is a firm advocate of mixed tutorial groups. He quoted William Alfred as saying, "If you get a group of boys together, they all go to sleep on you. If you get a group of girls together, they take notes." Bevington will be directing at least one senior honors thesis in Moors next year...