Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...group arrived in Boston Monday. their periodic visits to Cambridge attended a lunch Wednesday with from the Russian Research and spent Thursday afternoon Robert Frost, and dined that night Adams House. Three went to C. P. final Godkin lecture, while held a long discussion with students...
Cornell's main reason for exterminating James, presented by athletic director Robert J. Kane in a prepared statement, was a hit hasy: "Lefty was a competent teacher given too little time to teach," Kane declared. yesterday Kane told the CRIMSON that the press had made the correct inference of his statement in calling it a "backhanded slap at the Ivy League's no-spring practice rule." Asked for an explicit statement on his personal feelings on spring football practice in the Ivy League, Kane answered: "I'd love it. . . crews practice all fall, don't they...
...York City is 1,070 road miles. The difference between the Mexico evening Ledger and the New York Herald Tribune is even greater. Many young newsmen have successfully made the jump between such small towns as Mexico and the Big City. But in the summer of 1959, Robert Mitchell White II, the Ledger's crewcut coeditor and copublisher, decided to make the trip-at top level. He accepted the positions of president and editor of the Herald Tribune...
...longer operate on what he learned in college. Ours is a fluid society in which men move into positions of responsibility requiring training not previously received. Educational gaps become apparent at an age when a return to the classroom is no longer feasible." So says Robert Calkins, president of Washington, D.C.'s famed Brookings Institution, whose business it is to fill in the educational gaps of big men in the U.S. Government...
Troubled Tycoon. Brookings has "given thought to coming events" ever since it was founded 34 years ago by Robert Somers Brookings, a patriarchal St. Louis woodenwares millionaire. Around the turn of the century he was among those troubled tycoons who tired of avarice and yearned for service. He was 46, unmarried, uneducated and worth some $6,000,000. Quitting business, Brookings gave the rest of his life to educating himself and others; he married for the first time at 77, died...