Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jacob Gould Schurman, Minister to China, was transferred to be Ambassador to Berlin (post left vacant by Alanson B. Houghton, transferred to London...
...Jacob Gould Schurman is a cosmopolite. Of Dutch descent, his boyhood was spent at Freetown, Prince Edward Island. He studied at London, Paris, and Edinburgh, taking a B.A, M.A. and Sc.D. He then obtained a traveling scholarship which took him to Heidelberg, Berlin, Gottingen and finally to Italy and Switzerland. In 1880, he took a professorship in Acadia College, Nova Scotia. Four years later, he went to Cornell as professor, and was President there from 1892 to 1920. In 1892 he became a U. S. citizen. He served as U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro...
...emotion of chimpanzees and orang-outangs is not very different from the emotion of man", said Dr. Wolfgang Koehler, Director of the Institute of Psychology of the University of Berlin, who has been visiting the University for the past week-end. "The only difference--if it is a difference--between the love of an ape and the love of a man, is that if you take the ape's girl into the next rom, he promptly forgets all about her." Dr. Koehler has spent several years in intimate study of apes in the Canary Islands...
With the Embassy at Berlin waiting an Ambassador, Secretary of State Kellogg was obliged to scurry around to find other diplomatic officers as well...
Died. Dr. August von Wasserman, 59, famed pathologist, discoverer of Wasserman blood tests, in Berlin...