Word: edinburghers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Dr. Frederick Grant Banting, discoverer of? insulin,* will receive the next award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine seems logical from a survey of the scientific achievements of the past year. It has been suggested from several sources, and from the Edinburgh International Congress of Physiology comes the story that Dr. Banting will be recommended to the Swedish Academy of Medicine, which acts as the jury for this prize on behalf of the Nobel Foundation, custodians of the fund established in 1896 by the will of Alfred B. Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite. The average value...
...Pavloff's next destination was to have been the Edinburgh Congress of Physiology, which he had been officially invited to address, but the British Consulate in New York refused to visé his passport because subjects of Soviet Russia are not being admitted to the tight little island without special permission from the Foreign Office. Pavloff, being a citizen of Russia, necessarily travels under a passport granted by its government, but he is personally an anti-Bolshevik and takes no part in politics. The French consul was more of a realist, and the professor will probably land at Cherbourg...
...annual games at Stamford Bridge was given a first exhibition of England's 1924 Olympic possibilities. Four English Amateur Athletic Association records were broken: 100-yard dash - Liddell, Edinburgh, 9 7-10 sec. (The U. S. A. A. U. record is 9 6-10 sec.) 220-yard dash-Liddell, Edinburgh, 21 3-5 sec. (U. S., 21 1-5 sec.) 120-yard high hurdles-Gaby, Polytechnic, 15 1-6 sec. (U. S., 14 2-5 sec.) Running high jump-Lewden, Stade Francais...
...although still in New York, will soon arrive in Cambridge to give courses in English at the University Summer School. Professor F. S. Boas, who is President of the English Branch of the Association, will teach at the University of Chicago, and Professor H. J. C. Grierson of Edinburgh University at Cornell. Professor A. E. Morgan of the University College at Exeter and Professor A. W. Reed of Kings College at London are both scheduled to be at Columbia this summer...
...Bishop of Edinburgh. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand. As a boy, he lived in America and attended a private school on Washington Square. While an undergraduate at Cambridge, he wrote two novels. One of them, The Wooden Horse, was his first published story. Before this, however, at the age of twelve, he is said to have written a novel concerning Guy Fawkes for the delectation of the family cook. For a time he worked as a journalist on The London Standard. He is popular in London; but it is only at certain times that he allows himself...