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Physiologists Henry Buchtel and Giovanni Berlucchi recall that a question asked in a classic 1950 history of experimental psychology-"Where or how does the brain store its memories? That is the great mystery"-is still unanswered a quarter of a century later. Psychologist Wilse Webb cheerfully admits that after years of research on sleep, he still does not understand its purpose...
...John Thomas started as Firestone's first chemist. He was then 28, got a salary of $100 a month, a $10 raise from his previous job. The company employed about 700 men, and a corner of one shop was partitioned off for the laboratory. He had gone to Buchtel College, now Akron University, had a degree and was proud of it, though he was the only college graduate employed by Firestone for many years. Now he is affectionately known to everyone as "J. W." just as Mr. Firestone is called "H. S." Mr. Thomas was a good football player...
...Crissinger literally "monkeyed with the buzzsaw" in his father's lumber mill. His hand was crippled so badly for farm work that his father saw the wisest thing would be to train the boy's mind. Therefore Dan Crissinger of the "Chain Gang" went away to Buchtel College (now the University of Akron) and to the University of Cincinnati. By the time he got back to Marion, Ohio, to build a home and practice law, "Chain Gangers" and "Stunners" were grown...
...oratorical contest, Thursday, at Buchtel College, Akron, O., to select a representative to the state inter collegiate contest, there were among the contestants a young lady, named Miss Mary Sibbley, and H. C. Morris, a son of a Chicago millionaire. The judges decided in favor of the young lady, and upon this the father of the young man sprang up and charged the judges with being prejudiced. The son has chalenged the young lady for a second contest for $1000 a side, the stakes to go for the founding of a hospital in Akron, to be named after the successful...
...University of California in the Wesh, and at many intermediate points. Among them are Story, Craig, and Franklin, now in Johns Hopkins; Marston, of Baltimore; Gore, lately of the University of Virginia and now in the University of North Carolina; Halstead at Princeton; Mitchell at Marietta; Ely at Buchtel, O.; Stringham in the University of California; Van Velzer in the University of Wisconsin; Prentiss of the United States Nautical Almanac; and Durfee, just appointed to Hobart College...