Word: botanists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Election. The Association Council, acting for the membership of some 15,000, elected as the Association's President for 1927, Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, author, botanist and horticulturist, onetime (1903-13) Dean of the College of Agriculture, Cornell University...
...rather to comment on the happy system by which such an appreciation is tendered to every Senior in certain departments of concentration. There are however, a great many fields which ignore such a requirement altogether. It may not be the duty of a civil engineer or an export botanist to be fully acquainted with the Bible. There may be other things that are more important in his preparation for future success. But such a requirement, if it were carried through every department, could not fail to aid in that rounding out and broadening which is essential to every...
...with Harry Houdini the Handcuff King (who claimed to have "shown her up"), Margery was invited to perform for a committee of experts at the Harvard University psychological laboratories. Scientists of no small account attended the seances-Drs. Harlow Shapley (astronomer), S. B. Wolbach (pathologist), W. J. V. Osterhout (botanist), Edwin G. Boring, William McDougall and Hudson Hoagland (psychologists...
...bisecting a hypotenuse. There was tall, cadaverous Hyman ("Hymie") Rosenbaum, Pennsylvania graduate, another mathematician, a genius so absent-minded that the adolescent oafs he taught often mistook him for a "nut" at first. There was Harris Rosenbaum, Yale physicist, terse, timesaving, efficient. Later there was Joseph Rosenbaum II, Cornell botanist...
Died. Sir Francis Darwin, 77, distinguished botanist, originator of the theory that plants have an "unconscious memory," asker of the question "Do plants think?" thrice a widower, son of the famed Charles Darwin; at Cambridge, England...