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...Dyke Back From Europe...
Professor Paul Van Dyke, of the history department, has returned from Paris, where he has served for two years as head of the American University Union. The University office has announced the appointment of four new professors: Professor Edward Raymond Bossange, late of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh who will replace the late Professor Howard Crosby Butler as head of the School of Architecture; Professor Frank Eidman, to be associate professor of machine design and industrial practice; Professor F. A. Heacock, to be professor of graphics and engineering drawing; and Professor Richard Montgomery Field, to be assistant professor of geology...
Anathemata are to him: "Pish Posh!" he labels in a Rage The writings of that Worthy Sage, That Man of Superhuman Brain, The Syndicated Doctor Crane, And loudly voices his Dislike For the Reverend Doctor H. van Dyke...
...Mencken's theories of the " American language " met the ridicule of speakers before the Conference of British and American Professors of English at Columbia. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton referred to the suggestion of an American language as being either " a specimen of American humor " or " a serious enormity." Dr. F. N. Scott, of Michigan, speaking of Mr. Mencken's translation of the Declaration of Independence said: " That Mr. Mencken has failed to perceive the gulf between the sterile vulgarity of his performance and the massive dignity of the original, is for Americans not a matter...
...time my secretary. I asked $50,000 damages, alleging that the plaintiff by refusing to keep a promise to marry me had 'brought me into ridicule and contempt' and had prevented me from paying court to 'other eligible and marriageable ladies.' " Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former Minister to the Netherlands: "A North Carolina divine, reading a sermon of mine preached in New York, offered me $1,000 if I ' or any other Biblical infidel' will produce one single fact proving the materialistic evolution of man out of a lower order of species." Isadora Duncan...