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...Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor emeritus and vigorous champion of civil rights as well as an authority on equity and commercial law, died yesterday morning of a coronary thrombosis. He had entered the Phillips House of the Massachusetts General Hospital last Saturday. Chafee was 71 years...
Sidney Hook, in the January issue of "Commentary," contrasts two different kinds of liberals, and criticizes at length the views on liberalism held by Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor, Emeritus...
Harvard's first self-supporting student was one Zechariah Bridgen of the class of 1657, who earned his college education by "ringeing the bell and wayting on table." But there was no organized attempt on the part of the University to help find jobs for students until 1896, when the Appointments Office was formed to replace the Appointments Committee, a group of faculty members who only recommended students for jobs in the Boston area, The new office provided a limited number of jobs, but did not operate on a very large scale...
...Federal government possesses a "residual power" to punish gross violations of civil rights by the states, and must exercise this power if it is to maintain its leadership of the free world, Zechariah Chafee, University Professor emeritus, told a Baltimore audience yesterday...
During the 22 years since Conant's original proposal, funds for eight such unrestricted chairs as he envisaged have been donated. The newest chair, the Loeb University Professorship, is as yet unfilled. The retirements of Nobel prize physicist P. W. Bridgman '04 and of lawyer Zechariah Chafee, Jr. leaves two more chairs vacant. Holding the five remaining chairs are theologian Paul Tillich, economist Sumner H. Slichter, Middle East authority Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb, classicist Werner W. Jaeger, and language expert I.A. Richards