Retirements

Last autumn Princeton University lost its able Mathematician Oswald Veblen to Dr. Abraham Flexner's new Institute for Advanced Study (TIME, Oct. 24). At Princeton retirement is permissible at 65, mandatory at 68. So after 43 years of service Dr. George McLean Harper relinquished his famed Woodrow Wilson Professorship of Literature and settled down to write a biography of Coleridge. Patriarchal Paleontologist William Berryman Scott, 75, retired after having been allowed to round out 50 years of teaching at Princeton. Last week there were more Princeton retirements.

Wise and beloved, Dean Augustus Trowbridge of the Graduate School was sometimes called "the most nearly human member of the Princeton faculty." Because of ill health he, 63, submitted a resignation which was regretfully accepted last week. Next dean, to be announced next June, may be popular English Professor Robert Kilburn Root.

Other names on Princeton's retirement list last week were so eminent as to cause wonder, until it was realized that they are all of retirement age: Biologist Edward Grant Conklin is 69; Art Professor Frank Jewett Mather Jr. is going on 65; Modern Language Professor William Koren is 69; Geodesist Walter Butler Harris 68; Anatomist Charles Freeman Williams McClure 68.

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