Meaning of Emeritus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A (male) person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title.
2. An honorific version of a previous title.
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Examples

“Martin Engels said: “I am not posted on dyke-bridges, but if it is a Dutch scheme there may be something in it. That engineer made a mistake by calling the city officials emerituses. He should not call people names if he wants the Municipal Council to build his twenty-four-million-dollar bridge. If the Tammany organization wants to build a dyke-bridge, I’m for it.””

“Now, we have no criticism for college presidents and emerituses as such. A man may be all that and still be a pretty good fellow—whatever the effect might be on his character and happiness. But there is one thing certain—no one man can know it all.”

“A “State-of-Mind” called Winter Park, / Where genius thrives, a brilliant spark, / Emerituses tramp thru dark / To hear illustrious profs remark / On “culchar,” tone and style. / So, hark, / While dogs, in tongues semantic, bark!”

“Oh you, veteran crime reporter, you grave old usher, you once popular policeman, now in solitary confinement after gracing that school crossing for years, you wretched emeritus read to by a boy!”

“And so, another well-deserving name has been added to Central Florida’s list of emerituses, perhaps the most distinguished lineup of names in the area.”

“Should he take the international presidency in a few years he would be in line for the AFL-CIO National Executive Council, now replete with emerituses.”

“Back then, the poet Witter Bynner was invited to give a series of talks. His classes were small. It was beautiful weather. He took them out on the lawn. The faculty never forgot. To this very day you can find snowy haired emerituses toddling about in homspun^([sic]) tweeds who will tell you, “Had a poet here once. Name of Winter, think it was. Took the students out on the lawn.””

“The Emerituses Are Back / More unfinished business: / The Commission on Governmental Ethics voted this week to look into the “emeritus” pay drawn by five retired state college presidents. The motion to investigate was made by commission member Victor Bussie, state president of the AFL-CIO, who said it was desirable to determine “whether or not university and college funds are being paid to people who are not performing useful work.” The only “no” vote on Mr. Bussie’s motion was cast by Commission Chairman Vanue Lacour, who argued that the code of ethics was never intended to apply to college and university affairs.”

“Unfortunately for the publicity shy doctor, the occasion happened to be the presentation of the much coveted Dhanvantri Award and newsmen had a field day clicking away at the galaxy of medical emerituses.”

“WHEN IT was announced Tuesday that my title henceforth will be “editor emeritus,” with Mike Kidder taking over as editor of the paper, I received a call from a very high-ranking Stanford official. “I never knew they had emerituses in your business,” he said. “I never did either,” I replied, “but it seemed to hit the right combination of subliminal dignity and overt ambiguity.””

“You include some comment by Sakharov Institute organizers, but who are they compared to all the “emerituses”?”

“He, Slick Moore, Phil Clark, Whitey Kendall, and Chico Bolin, all coaching emerituses, visit at the banquet each August and Howard insults them just as he did 40 years ago.”

“As is so often the case, this particular critic is a professor emeritus and emerituses often grow reckless once free of the daily grind of dispensing received opinion.”

“What girl is among the front-runners of Sydney University’s emerituses?”

““We could try going back, but that probably means dropping the expedition. Have you talked to Duden?” “He wouldn’t like that. He’s retiring, and emerituses don’t get grants the way they used to. He needs this. His career hasn’t had many successes.””

“With a string of “emerituses” behind his name, last of which was acquired with the Welfare society resignation, [George Q.] Sheppard now lives in retirement in his home at The Hill, 722 King street.”

“NOW THE VENERABLE and distinguished First National Bank bossman has joined a distinguished league. To my knowledge, he shares his honors with two other distinguished Orlandoans — Dr. J. Powell Tucker, pastor emeritus of the First Baptist Church, and J. C. Brossier, editor emeritus of the Orlando Evening Star. And now that Dr. and Mrs. Tucker have returned home from a month’s vacation trip, the good doctor can sit down today with Mr. Allen and Mr. Brossier and they can talk about their emerituses.”

“Marshall Keeble, president emeritus of Nashville Christian Institute, and A. M. Burton, president emeritus of Life & Casualty Insurance, have more in common than their age (85), their frequent meetings or their emerituses.”

“NOW THE holder of numerous emerituses and honorary titles in recognition of her long service, Mrs. [Chalmers W.] Hutchison [a.k.a. Bessie Hutchison] still has not retired from her lively interest in all things that are “moving” nor from watching the contemporary scene.”

“He was also a visiting professor of chemical engineering, and received an Emeritus in 1967.”

“After receiving her emeritus in 1976 she has lectured at the University of Berkeley, and University of Vienna.”

“After obtaining his emeritus in 1953, he returned to Germany and lived in Bad Pyrmont.”

“He continued there after his emeritus in 1921 until his death in 1934.”

“I see Dr Solly Ozrovech whom I have known for years, a fine person, has now received his Emeritus.”

“Rev Mr Hilkowitz left Paarl in 1914 to settle in England and was succeeded as minister of the congregation in 1915 by the Rev Hillel Strelitz (see below), who served the community for 25 years before receiving his emeritus in 1941.”

“Appointed Professor at the Collège de France in 1947, in the Chair of differential and functional equations, that he occupies till his emeritus in 1978, Leray developes^([sic]) till 1950 his ideas on the cohomology of closed continuous maps, fiber spaces and Lie groups (Leray-Hirsch theorem) [12], [13], and continues his work in fluid mechanics by contributing to the theory of airplane wings [11], in the line of Tchapliguine and Prandtl’s work.”

“In 1926 he [Hermann Staudinger] accepted a position at the University of Freiburg, as Head of the Laboratory of Chemistry, and remained there until his emeritus in 1951.”

“Born in Vienna, where he remained until his emeritus in 1989.”

“From 1985 until the time of his emeritus in 1994 he was professor of sanitary engineering – particularly in relation to public drinking water supply matters – at Delft University of Technology.”

“When [Gerhard Herman Johannes Wilhelm Jacobus Geesink] Geesink departed with his emeritus, the Faculty of Letters wanted to make something of it and proposed a successor: [Dirk Hendrik Theodoor] Vollenhoven or J[ohan]. G[erhard]. Ubbink, with special recommendation of the first of these. […] [Cornelis] Van Gelderen was able to depart at last with his emeritus in 1945, [Gerhard Charles] Aalders and [Valentijn] Hepp followed in 1950.”

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