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Because Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Tydings both belong to the upper class their fight is the Purge's most bitter. Son of a marine engineer who worked at the Army's Aberdeen proving grounds, Millard Tydings became a mechanical engineer, studied law, practiced in Havre de Grace, enlisted as a private the day the U. S. entered the War. He came out a Lieutenant-Colonel...
...Jamaica Plain, and Edward A. Robinson, of New York City; Shattuck Scholarship to James C.Abbott, of Melrose; Thayer Fellowship and University Fellowship to Herbert Sprince, of Lewiston, Maine; University Fellowships to Willard D. Arant, of Cambridge; William E. Daugherty, of David City, Nebraska, Henry A. Page, III, of Aberdeen, North Carolina, and Earle L. Rudolph, of Arkadelphia, Arkansas...
...John Donne and Recent Criticism of Poetry," will be the subject of a lecture by Sir Herbert Grierson, Professor of Aberdeen University Scotland, in Emerson D, Thursday, April 28 at 4:30 o'clock. Sir Herbert is credited with several standard texts on poetry and is one of the authors of the Cambridge History of English Literature. He is speaking under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...
Fifty-eight-year-old Jacob Epstein, radical, Manhattan-born British sculptor whose monolithic works have created periodic storms among England's art critics, was awarded his first honorary degree (LL. D.), by Scotland's Aberdeen University. Said Aberdeen in honoring him: "The works of Mr. Epstein have sometimes evoked a lively criticism, which has died away as the critics themselves came to learn or came to be ignored...
About the same time in Aberdeen, Physicist George Paget Thomson, able son of Sir Joseph John, obtained the same result by a different method. He used much more high-powered electrons, around 50,000 volts. These were able to penetrate the crystalline structure of a film of metal one-millionth of an inch thick. After emerging they were still strong enough to impress a photographic plate, and Thomson obtained the first pictures of diffraction rings created by electrons...