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Pink Ribbons. The tut-tutting spread to America in 1929, when he published Marriage and Morals. A defense of free love, the book caused an uproar in 1940 when Russell-then living in the United States with his third wife-was offered a professorship at the City College of New York. The case against Russell's appointment was tried-and won -in the state supreme court, where the prosecution argued that Russell was "lecherous, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, irreverent, narrow-minded, and bereft of moral fiber...
Charles D. Thompson '48 of the University Development Office said yesterday that an additional $1-million is needed for an assistant professorship in modern Greek language, for several graduate fellowships and for library books. Thompson said this money would not be raised for "another couple of years." He said that the fund drive would be conducted among Greek-Americans and Greek citizens, and that he did not expect another grant from the Greek government...
...City businessman, Trilling earned both undergraduate and doctorate degrees in literature at Columbia. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1931 as an instructor of English. Two years earlier he had married Diana Rubin, also a distinguished critic, and they had one son James. As he worked toward a full professorship (in 1948 he became the first Jew to receive tenure in the English department) Trilling slowly gained the reputation of someone more than a courtly scholar. His doctoral dissertation on Matthew Arnold was published in 1939-in the heyday of the textual analyses by the New Criticism-and it restated...
...Consulting is a Harvard phenomenon," says ZviGriliches, Professor of Economics. "At the University of Chicago we were paid a good salary and expected to devote time to teaching--academics was always number one. But implicit in the offer of a Harvard professorship is the fact that one can take a $10,000 cut in salary because the money can be made up on the outside." At Harvard, Griliches concludes, with the strip of technological firms along Route 128, the more than 100 consulting companies in the Boston area, and the east coast network of law firms, "there is a whole...
...library's Judaica collection will receive $2.5; million for book funds and endowed curatorships, and $2.9 million will go twards a visiting professorship and scholar program...