Word: singleton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weakening of the Italian Department continued this month with the resignation of a newly-appointed instructor, and the expiration of the terms of another instructor and a visiting lecturer, it was learned yesterday. The Department will lose its most distinguished member, Charles S. Singleton, professor of Italian, at the end of the month...
These departures follow close upon the resignation of Singleton, probably the nation's foremost Dante scholar, announced in April. Singleton's resignation came as "a kind of protest against infringement on individual departments by the Administration," a source close to him said at the time. Singleton's departure will leave Louis F. Solona, associate professor of Romance Languages the only permanent appointee actively teaching in the Department...
...first dated New England miniature (176-, the last number being obscure) was the small, three-dimensional self-portrait by John Singleton Copley, whose father-in-law owned some of the tea destroyed by the Boston Tea Party but whose locket cases were made by Tea-Dumper Paul Revere. The best American miniatures were made by Edward Greene Malbone, who with precision of draftsmanship and a unique harmony of colors could portray the lofty assurance of Philanthropist Thomas Russell, wealthy New England merchant, or the visionary romanticism of Painter Washington Allston. Fine miniatures were also done by Sarah Goodridge, who painted...
...great tradition in which my own idea of a university happens to have been formed," Singleton continued. "I am happy to return...
...Romance Languages Department is as yet in doubt as to whether it will continue the courses in Dante which Singleton now teaches, Raimundo Lida department chairman, said yesterday. Lida felt it would be "a very difficult problem" to replace Singleton...