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...William Berryman Scott, patriarchal Princeton paleontologist, described a dinner party held in Ecuador some 1,600 years ago. A group of Indians sat watery-mouthed while mastodon steaks were sizzling over their fire. Beside the fire were laid their fine Mayan dishes. As the banquet was about to start, woe, in the form of a clay bank, descended upon the party, preserved the bones and pottery for posterity. Uncovered in 1927 by German archeologists, the find redated the reign of the mastodon. Until lately the mastodon was generally thought to have died about 20,000 years...
Birthday. William Berryman Scott, professor of geology at Princeton University. Age: 72. A member of the faculty for 47 years, he said: ". . . it would have been unthinkable to have demanded so much work from the undergraduate of 25 years ago as is required of him today...
...William Berryman Scott, 70, great-great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was asked by Princeton University to continue teaching geology for two more years, even though he has already reached the official retiring age for Princeton professors. Professor Scott has been on the Princeton faculty for 45 years, has traveled some 250,000 miles on diggers' expeditions, is almost as well-known scientifically as his Princeton classmate, Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History...
Married. Louise Rhees, granddaughter of President Rush Rhees, of the University of Rochester; to James T. Berryman; in Washington...
Cambridge Y. M. C. A.: A. H. Andrews '20, G. W. Allport '19, P. H. Berryman '19, C. G. Brandt '19, C. Brinton '19, W. G. Brocker '20, C. Champan '19, F. Crystal '19, D. J. Dempsey '20, D. S. Dunbar '19, L. F. Eames '18, F. R. Foxcroft '19, H. J. Gay '19, B. B. Gould '19, G. C. Houser '20, E. B. Liddell 1B, H. N. McIntyre '18, W. C. Morgan '17, W. H. Ness '19, A. A. Rouner '20, E. B. Schwulst '19, C. F. Zukoski...