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Bergen Evans: Meet the Warren County native behind The $64,000 Question game show

Dayton Daily News
Bergen Evans loved words, both written and spoken, and spent his entire life teaching and sharing that love with others.
11 months ago

But What's a Dictionary For?

The Atlantic
BERGEN EVANS, professor of English at Northwestern University, is known to a wide television and radio audience as one of our liveliest lexicographers and...
28 months ago

Is Tobacco Here to Stay?

The Atlantic
BERGEN EVANS has written several Atlantic articles in recent years, and parts of his book, The Natural History of Nonsense, appeared in onr pages.
28 months ago

Bergen Evans Dies (Published 1978)

The New York Times
Bergen Baldwin Evans, an authority on the uses and. abuses of the English language, died at a hospital in Highland Park, Ill.,...
559 months ago

Four faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Northwestern Now News
Wendy Griswold, C. Kirabo Jackson, James L. Mahoney and Sara A. Solla are among this year's class of 261 artists, scholars, scientists and leaders.
29 months ago

Letter to the editor: NU needs to rename its John Evans Alumni Center

Evanston RoundTable
We call on members of the NU community to urge the Board of Trustees to remove the name of John Evans from the alumni center.
5 months ago

Filmmaker selected for yearlong fellowship in Greece: Office of Fellowships

Northwestern University
The Office of Fellowships is thrilled to announce that Tanisha Tekriwal (SoC '23) has been chosen for the 2023–2024 cohort of the Anatolia...
15 months ago

When He Grooved in Chi: How the City Shaped the Writing and Worldview of Terry Southern

Newcity Lit
Southern spent nearly two years in Chicago, graduating from Northwestern University before returning to Europe and earning international...
5 months ago

Renoir and Munch subjects of Goldberg Lecture March 27

Vanderbilt University
"Night in St. Cloud," Edvard Munch, 1890. (Nasjonalgalleriet) S. Hollis Clayson, the 2013-14 Samuel H. Kress Professor at the National...
126 months ago