Word: dunlap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoke to him was a rich, retired lawyer named David Alexander Dunlap who had made his money not at the bar but by grubstaking prospectors, acquiring shares in the pioneer mines of the Cobalt field. Dr. Chant's talk impressed David Dunlap profoundly. He spoke to his wife about his idea of giving the university an observatory with a powerful telescope. Not long afterward he died...
...widow, however, did not forget his idea. For years she pondered it, conferring at times with Dr. Chant. Finally announcement was made of a gift of $500,000. Together Widow Dunlap and Astronomer Chant looked over the ground near Toronto, found a suitable site on a ridge nine miles from the city. Her son laid a cornerstone. A graceful administration building went up, with three housings for small telescopes on the roof. Fifty yards away a great telescope was installed in a circular building topped by a gleaming copper-clad dome...
Confronted with this dilemma, most adults would choose annihilation-according to Dr. Knight Dunlap, distinguished Johns Hopkins psychologist. Somewhat dubious of this conclusion was one of Dr. Dunlap's distinguished colleagues, Dr. Frederic Lyman Wells of Harvard Medical School, head psychologist of Boston Psychopathic Hospital. Dr. Wells and his associates presented the Dunlap Dilemma on cards to 176 persons. In Science last week Dr. Wells reported that only one in six of his subjects voted for annihilation...
Placed in nomination for the Fund Council were Winthrop W. Aldrich '07, Roger Amory '10, Charles E. Dunlap '11, William W. Fisher '04, Warwick P. Scott '23, Alfred Sutro '91, and Sydney M. Williams...
...patrons and patronesses are Dr. and Mrs. Melvin T. Copeland, Professor and Mrs. George F. Doriot, and Dean and Mrs. Edmond Wright. The ushers are William Banter, R. Canon Clements 2B; Robert C. Dunlap 2B, Thomas M. Hayden 2B, Grover L. Higdon 2B, Charles Shaeffer, and Robert E. Stevens 2B. Members of the Executive Board will assist...