Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business. But to the Senate, whence his confirmation must come, went protests against Poet MacLeish based on charges-more considerable than "Communism"-to which he humbly pleaded guilty. In announcing the appointment, Mr. Roosevelt explained that ever since 77-year-old Dr. Herbert Putnam (40 years Librarian, emeritus since last year) asked to be relieved, a search had been afoot for a successor possessing the many qualifications required. Mr. Roosevelt had finally decided that technical assistants could be hired for a librarian whose attainments as "gentleman and a scholar" are world renowned. To this, President Milton James Ferguson...
...Edited by Dr. Charles Stedman Macfarland, general secretary emeritus of the Federal Council of Churches - Fleming H. Revell...
...tradition the Ivy Oration, inaugurated in 1865, consists of a humorous survey of the graduating class's four years at Harvard. Blackwell will be following in the footsteps of such Harvard greats as Albert Bushnell Hart 80, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, and George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus...
...over the Andes to Argentina the President last week shifted Ambassador Norman Armour, 51, famed as the State Department's smoothest French-speaker, whose wife is a Russian princess. To be Government Secretary for the Virgin Islands he named Robert Morss Lovett, 68, distinguished left-wing belles-lettrist, Emeritus Professor of English of the University of Chicago, persistent civil libertarian...
...Richard C. Cabot, Professor of Social Ethics and of Clinical Medicine, Emeritus, died yesterday afternoon...