Papers, 1912-1987

Riesman, David, 1909-2002

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David Riesman (born September 22, 1909, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.-died May 10, 2002, Binghamton, New York) was an American sociologist, attorney, writer, and educator. He is best known as the author of The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer, 1950), an examination of post-WWII American society. The book struck a chord with readers and became a bestseller, contributing the terms "inner-directed," "outer-directed," and "tradition-...

Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012

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Born in France on November 30, 1907, critic-historian Jacques Barzun came to the United States in 1920 and received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. He taught at Columbia until his retirement in 1975, having also for a decade been Dean of Faculties and Provost. From 1975 to 1993 he was Literary Adviser to Charles Scribner's Sons. Among his forty books are biographical-critical studies of William James and Hector Berlioz, several volumes of literary and cultu...

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...

Tuchman, Barbara W. (Barbara Wertheim), 1912-1989

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Historian and writer Tuchman (1912- ) received an A.B. from Radcliffe College (1933), and worked as a journalist and editor. She is the author of many prize-winning works, including The Guns of August (1962) and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971). From the description of Letter, 1963. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007438 New York-born American journalist and historian; Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Guns of August, 1962. Fro...

Mary Tyng Higgins, 1913-

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A. Tyng family Ethel Arens, daughter of Adelma S.and Edward J. Arens, was born in Boston, on October 25, 1887 and received her A.B. from Radcliffe in 1911. She married Walworth Tyng (Harvard A.B., 1905, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge [Mass.] S.T.B., 1911), in 1912; they went to China as missionaries in 1913, and for nearly forty years worked as missionaries in Changsha, Hunan Province. At Rev. Tyng's retirement in 1949, they returned to the U.S.A., and he served...

Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1874-1958

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Anson Phelps Stokes was born on April 13, 1874, in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York. He received degrees from Yale University (B.A., 1896) and the Episcopal Theological School (B.D., 1900). He served as Secretary of Yale University (1899-1921) and was active on several University committees and organizations. Phelps also served as Canon of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Washington, D.C. (1924-1939) and was active on a variety of educational commissions and as a trustee of the Phel...

Johnson, Hewlett, 1874-

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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Tyng family

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Sibley, Emily, 1888-1979.

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Home economist (Radcliffe College, B.A., 1911; Simmons College, B.S., 1913), Sibley taught home economics, dietetics, and nutrition, mainly at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh (1915-1919) and Choate School, Brookline, MA (1920-1950), and was involved in civic affairs in Cambridge, MA. From the description of Papers, 1904-1950 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006842 ...

Higgins family

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Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974

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Louis I. Kahn was born in Estonia and raised in Philadelphia. He was trained in architecture in the Beaux-Arts tradition at the University of Pennsylvania under Paul Philippe Cret. As a mature architect, Kahn was distinguished from his contemporaries (in a period dominated by the International Style) by his unique personal philosophy of architecture and a style marked by a profound sense of history and pure geometry in design and the texture of materials in construction. His legacy is as much in...

Higgins Charles Ashley, d. 1975

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Higgins, Mary Tyng, 1913-

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Walworth and Ethel Arens Tyng were missionaries in China 1913-1949; their son-in-law and daughter, Charles Ashley and Mary Tyng Higgins were missionaries in China, 1939-41, then interned by the Japanese, and repatriated in 1942. Rev. Higgins was Dean of Trinity Cathedral (Episcopal) in Little Rock, Ark., 1957-1977. From the description of Papers, 1912-1987 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008013 ...