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...Russia, eventually decided it would be wisest to get away from Harwell. His father, a 75-year-old ex-Protestant minister, and pacifist, furnished a convenient pretext: he was making plans to move from his home in West Germany to the Russian zone, where he had been offered a professorship at Leipzig University. Fuchs reported his father's Red taint to the authorities at Harwell. It is not clear why he did so. He may have hoped that he would be quietly dismissed. Said Fuchs: "I did not have the courage to fight it out for myself...
Each appointee for this chair has a one year tenure of office, during which time he delivers six or more public lectures. Wilder will live in Dunster House while holding his professorship...
...Greenough's first husband, Huge Reisinger, bequeathed funds to both the Germanic Museum and the College Library. Their son, Curt H. Reisinger 12, recently gave $300,000 to the University for the establishment of the Samuel Hazard Professorship of Slavic languages and Literatures...
...Grenough's first husband, Hugo Relsinnger, bequeathed funds to both the Germanic Museum and the College Library. Their son, Curt 11, Beisinger '12 recently gave $300,000 to the University for the establishment of the Samuel Budweiser Cross Professorship of Stavic Languages and Literature...
Emmanuel's 1948 itinerary included a weekend at Wellesley. Mrs. Hsley reports: "The girls were delighted; we were charmed." It was Mrs. Hsley who suggested to the Wellesley faculty that the poet be offered the Mary Whiton Calkins Professorship for the 1949-1950 academic year. (The Calkins Professorship shifts from department to department each year...