Word: wilson
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When Flagler decided to make St. Augustine into a tourist haven, the man he selected to design the Ponce de Leon course was Donald Ross. The son of a Scottish stonemason. Ross became the professional at the Dornoch course in his native town. A Harvard professor named Robert Wilson, who spent his summers in Dornoch and became enraptured with golf, persuaded him to emigrate to America. Ross arrived in Boston in 1898 with $2 in his pocket. He went on to design over 500 courses, many of which are among the outstanding tests of golf in the country...
...James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, and chairman of the Faculty subcommittee that drew up the core requirements, said yesterday he believes professors in the natural sciences oppose the core for different reasons...
...James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, and Karl Strauch, Leverett Professor of Physics, were among the final 12 candidates under consideration, Fox said...
...profit." To start, it listens to informers, and if their tips prove to be accurate, can reward them with up to 10% of the extra taxes seized. "Thousands of tips are received every year, and quite a few are generated by a get-even motive," says IRS Spokesman Wilson Fadely. Jilted lovers, jealous spouses, aggrieved employees, angry (or envious) neighbors and other informants last year collected rewards totaling more than $360,000 for snitches that produced $14.9 million in extra taxes. What is more, the IRS always tries to audit the returns of those people fingered by law-enforcement authorities...
Parents were treated to lectures by John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus, E.O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science, and Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, Saturday afternoon in the Science Center...