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...dentist's daughter never elopes with the local garage mechanic. The shoemaker's son rarely rises to a professorship at the Sorbonne. The businessman's boy would never think of devoting his life to farming or even less of entering the civil service. A schoolteacher's child can conceivably become a successful lawyer, and a winegrower's son, with luck and capital, may operate a thriving tractor agency. One can be hopeful - to a limit...
...grandson of a former University president was named yesterday to a professorship in the School of Design...
...Charles William Eliot II '20, nationally known landscape architect, regional planner, and grandson of the late President Eliot. The chair he will assume is the Charles Eliot Professorship of Landscape Architecture named after his uncle, who was also a landscape architect...
...stranger who threatens their peace of mind. Harding defends himself by putting a steely armor on and letting his heart freeze up. By war's end, Harding has surrendered because he no longer believes that creative man can ever win. He settles tamely into a snug U.S. professorship. "The Faculty had no idea that it was a glacial shell of a man who had come to live among them, mainly because they were themselves unfilled with anything more than a little academic stuffing...
...friend, who had known Karpovich when he was preparing for a history professorship at Moscow University and working for the Socialist Revolutionary Party, now had an unusual offer to make. The new provisional government set up under Alexander Kerensky had just appointed him as ambassador to the United States, and he wanted Karpovich to go along as his confidential secretary. Karpovich, however, said no. Indeed he said it again and again during the next two weeks, and finally agreed to make the trip only after his friend promised that they would return within a few months. "Don't bother...