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...other two men to attend the meeting from the School will be Bancroft Beatley '15, associate professor of Education, and L. L. Dudley '21, assistant professor of Education. The former will preside over a discussion of Secondary Education, while Dudley will talk on "The Harvard Plan of Apprenticeship in Administration," in the meeting on Educational Administration, both to be held on Tuesday. On the final day, Dean Holmes will preside at the general session for the 1931 yearbook of the Society...
...lives and times of all North American colonists and U. S. citizens from Norsemen to Hoover. That this was no easy task he had set himself may be judged by the failure at it or despair of it entertained by his best predecessors and colleagues. Statesman George Bancroft (1800-91) surely meant to round out his ten-volume History of the United States, the first volume of which was issued in 1834, but his subsequent activities as President Folk's Secretary of the Navy, and as Minister to England and to Germany, prevented him from getting further than...
Like a crescent moon through a fog, the tenuous edge of a great physiological discovery appeared at Cornell University last week. Professor Wilder Dwight Bancroft, authoritative student of colloid chemistry, and Dr. G. Holmes Richter, research fellow, have been using an ultramicroscope on living sensory nerves...
...Bancroft and Richter have sought some chemical which would peptize (digest, dissolve) the hard-boiled nerve contents but not injure other parts of the cells or of the body. Last week they cautiously said: "In the light of laboratory experiments, not yet ready for publication, we seem to have hit upon some-thing which promises favorable results...
After a little while at Tome School and at Annapolis where he stroked his class crew, George Bancroft became an actor. Like other actors from the East, he went into pictures to play western villains. In Driven he was billed as The Smiling Villain. Smiling villainy became his specialty. When Underworld set box-office records and a fashion for crook stories, he was made a star. Looking younger than his age (43) he earns about $5,000 per week, takes a swim every day, has a mild aptitude for humorous anecdotes which he acts out gravely as he goes along...