Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Dr. Arthur Amos Noyes, director of the Gates Chemical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and incoming president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: "While even less can be said today of the processes by which evolution takes place than was thought to be known fifty years ago, the fact that evolution has been going on and that many animal types have gone through definite stages of development can only be doubted by an individual who, like an ostrich, buries his head in the sand out of a vague dread that he may see something shocking...
...William, Emerson Ritter, University of California zoologist and president of Science Service, declared: "When the idea of emergence is applied to racial as well as to individual development, there is left no trace of doubt about the adequacy of the creative power of the natural order to produce man, not only with all his physical, but with all his spiritual attributes...
Officers. As many scientific bodies do, the American Association for the Advancement of Science elects a president a year before he is to take office. Thus Dr. Arthur Amos Noyes of the California Institute of Technology who presided over last week's sessions was elected a year ago. And Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, who was made president-elect last week, takes office twelve months hence. Dr. Osborn is president of the American Museum of Natural History...
Married. The youngest son of Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, Paul Thompson Sunday; to Mrs. Elene Herbert, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; at Tijuana, Mexico, to escape California's three-day marriage license...
Married. Mrs. Margaret Shaw Billings, widow of Albert M. Billings, son of Cornelius K. G. Billings of Manhattan and Santa Barbara, to Robert de Vecchi, California fruitman; in Manhattan...