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Women. For some reason scientists do not like women in their deliberations or public shows. The American Philosophical Society, which is tycoonish and social as well as scientific, this year elected among 25 new members Walter Sherman Gifford, Frank Billings Kellogg, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Adolph Simon Ochs, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. But no women. Last woman admitted was Agnes Repplier, 73, author and Laetare Medalist, in 1928. Before her was Annie Jump Cannon, 67, Harvard's patient star recorder...
...Other academicians elected last week: Doctors Henry Bryant Bigelow, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.; Edwin Broun Fred, University of Wisconsin; Edwin Crawford Kemble, Harvard: Adolph Knopf, Yale; Robert Harry Lowie, University of California; Joseph Haines Moore, Lick Observatory; Robert Lee Moore, Austin, Texas; Herman Joseph Muller, University of Texas, and George Linius Streeter, Carnegie Institution, Baltimore. Xew president: William Wallace Campbell, 69. president of the University of California, director of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton...
Humor is not lacking in mild forms. George Biddle, in a light composition entitled "Bringing Home the Cows" has contributed a highly entertaining piece. "Lohengrin" by Adolph Dehn will raise a smile, while his other lithograph, "Pont St. Michel" is a really striking piece of work, containing a great deal of feeling...
Another Chicago "story" of the week: that Evangelist Billy Sunday is a brother of Judge Adolph Joseph Sabath, having changed his name to Sunday some years ago because it "went better" when he was playing professional baseball (Chicago Cubs...
Young Judge Lester William Roth of Los Angeles, who "used to be a newspaperman myself,"† pleased the newspapermen covering his courtroom by continuing into last week the dispute .about the incipient gigantism of 235-lb., 6-ft., 14-year-old Adolph Roome (TIME, April 6). Last fortnight Judge Roth assured large Adolph's mother that her onetime husband, Dr. Adolph Edward Roome Jr. would not be allowed to "experiment'' on Adolph with pituitary extract. Said the Judge then: "The boy is not a guinea pig.'' But last week, Dr. Roome having shown that pituitary...