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...that reason especially, the names of Professor Elton of the University of Liverpool and Professor Patch of Smith College among the new appointments to the College of Arts and Sciences for the next academic year are more than welcome additions. Their appearance as lecturers in particular courses will serve to bolster a falling superstructure. Contemporaneous with the departure to England of one of Harvard's most brilliant scholars and popular teachers, the second appearance of the English authority is opportune in balancing the deficit occasioned by the loss of Professor Lowes. The acquisition of both men represents a definite step...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ENGLISH REVIVAL | 1/28/1930 | See Source »

Appointments of four lecturers to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were announced yesterday at University Hall. Professor Oliver Elton, of the University of Liverpool, and H. R. Patch, Professor of English at Smith College, will teach in the English Department during the year 1930-31. Gaetano Salvemini, of the University of Florence, will lecture in the History Department this next half year while Josef Schumpeter, of Bonn, will be associated with the Economics Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE FOREIGNERS TO LECTURE AT HARVARD | 1/28/1930 | See Source »

Professor Patch will be lecturer in English for the second half of the year 1930-31. He was graduated from Hobart College, and received his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard. Before he became professor of English at Smith in 1924 he was an instructor at Harvard, a lecturer and later assistant and associate professor at Bryn Mawr. He has written several studies on English literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE FOREIGNERS TO LECTURE AT HARVARD | 1/28/1930 | See Source »

...Eielson, 32, is, perhaps was, general manager of Alaskan Airways. There are no regular air transport lines in the Peninsula. Alaskan Airways has bases at Nome, Anchorage, Fairbanks. It charters its planes for taxi and express service, using about 70 small government landing fields in summer and any patch of level snow in winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Foolproof? | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

When the corpse of a bearded man, dressed only in pajamas, was found stretched on the pavement of London's Horse Guards Parade, it seemed a fairly simple matter to identify him. But it soon turned out that: his beard was false, a patch of his left eyebrow shaved; he had been dead six hours, though he was seen alive only an hour before his body was found; he had been killed by a blow on the head, and shot afterwards. The finding of the murderer is a comparatively simple matter after it is proved who was murdered. Five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder! | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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