Records of the Deans of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1895-1984 (inclusive).

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r60hpw (corporateBody)

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

Harvard University

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64n9x97 (person)

Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Keenan, Edward L., 1935-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v410p9 (person)

National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65j16fk (corporateBody)

Brief biographies of selected NIH Directors: Rolla E. Dyer directed the National Institutes of Health from 1942 to 1950. Specializing in infectious diseases, Dyer joined the Public Health Service in 1916. As NIH Director he was instrumental in the establishment of the Clinical Center, the National Heart Institute, the National Institute of Dental Research, and the National Institute of Mental Health. An international authority on nutrition and dietary deficiency disease, William H. Sebrell began...

Rogers, Francis Millet

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xk9389 (person)

Rogers earned his Harvard AM in 1937 and his PhD in 1940. He taught Romance languages and served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. From the description of Conclusions, drawn from a study of the assonances in the Chanson de Roland : concerning the old French accented vowels / by Francis Millet Rogers. January 19, 1937. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228511867 From the description of The Spanish voiceless bilabial fricative [[Phi]], wri...

Jones, Richard Victor.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dn5qgz (person)

McKinney, Peter S.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69s39h4 (person)

Dreben, Burton S.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s19mqk (person)

Elder, John P.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6281ssd (person)

Lowes, John Livingston, 1867-1945

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qv3v81 (person)

Lowes was an American scholar of English literature, especially the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. At the time of these letters he was professor at Harvard University. Grace Hazard Conkling was a professor of English at Smith College (1914-1947) and the author of many books of poetry. From the description of [Letters to Mrs. Conkling, 1920-1922] / John L. Lowes. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 259487545 Lowes received a doctorate from Harvard in 1903 and taught Engl...

Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-1980

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62r3tbk (person)

Jones was a Professor of English at Harvard, having joined the department in 1936; he retired in 1962 as Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities. He was known as the "historian of American culture." From the description of Correspondence with Robert E. L. Strider, 1949-1980 (inclusive), 1962-1979 (bulk) (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064254 Writer and educator at Harvard University. From the description of Howard Mumford Jones Papers, 1915...

National Science Foundation (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pc6rdk (corporateBody)

United States. Public Health Service

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65x64pk (corporateBody)

In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...

Wilcox, Edward Raymond

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6892r5h (person)

Robinson, G.W.S.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ng697p (person)

Lamb, Arthur Becket, 1880-1952

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kw5gmt (person)

Lamb received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard in 1904 and taught chemistry at Harvard. From the description of Lecture notes in Chemistry A, 1940-1941. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512291 From the description of Lecture notes in Chemistry 7, 1915-1916. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075184 From the description of Lecture notes in Chemistry, 1915-1916. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075183 From the description of L...

Harvard University. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Office of the Dean.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kx0s0x (corporateBody)

Wild, Payson Sibley, 1905-1998

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w68502 (person)

Mr. Wild, a distinguished scholar and academic administrator, served as vice president and dean of faculties at Northwestern from 1949 to 1969 and provost from 1969 to 1973. Mr. Wild came to Northwestern from Harvard University where he was professor of government and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. During his 13-year career at Harvard, Mr. Wild earned a reputation as a leading scholar of international relations. One of Harvard's most popular lecturers, he taught c...

Haskins, Charles Homer, 1870-1937

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68916p7 (person)

Professor of history at Harvard and University of Wisconsin; summer resident of Hancock Point, Me. From the description of Genealogical papers, ca. 1900-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70940266 An American historian, Haskins taught at Johns Hopkins (1889-1892), Wisconsin (1892-1902), and Harvard (1902-1931). He was a leading medievalist of his generation and a prominent member of the group of presidential advisers known as "The Inquiry," 1917. As delegate to the Paris P...

Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z90xmv (person)

Wright taught Greek and served as Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. From the description of Papers of John Henry Wright, 1887-1888 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972943 ...

Chase, George Henry, 1874-1952

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64f363h (person)

Chase (Harvard, A.B., 1896) taught classical archaeology and served as Dean of the Graduate School at Harvard from 1925 to 1939. From the description of Papers of George Henry Chase, 1926-1951 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973285 ...

Hoadley, Leigh

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r800k1 (person)