Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Edgar Henry Summerfield Bailey, 84, Kansas University's professor emeritus of chemistry; in Lawrence, Kans. Among his students, who called themselves "Bailey's Boys," were Elmer Verner Mc-Collum, vitamin authority, and the late Edwin Emery Slosson, director of Science Service...
...Lawrence Lowell's baccalaureate sermon of June, 1921. But I can recall a good deal of the sermon at chapel on class day morning. Some notable divine was supposed to give it, but he had a call elsewhere or something, and the saintly George Herbert Palmer, already professor emeritus for several years, pinch hit for him. Most of us knew him only as the author of some required freshman reading. "Self-Cultivation in English," and we were faintly disappointed...
Died. Dr. John Grier Hibben, 72, president-emeritus of Princeton University; of internal hemorrhages when he drove his Packard sedan (given him by Princeton's trustees upon his retirement last June) into a Chevrolet beer truck near Woodbridge, N. J. His wife, 70, riding in the back seat, sustained a fractured skull and facial cuts from her smashed eyeglasses. Police thought Dr. Hibben must have suffered a stroke or fainted at the wheel before the crash. Born in Peoria. Ill., son of a minister, he was graduated with honors by Princeton in 1882, Princeton Theological Seminary in 1886 (after...
...University of California gave LL, D.'s to Wisconsin's Alexander Meiklejohn; Consulting Engineer Lillian Moller Gilbreth; and, on his sickbed, to Chemistry Professor Emeritus Edmond O'Neill, 73. The University of Santa Clara gave an LL. D. to Dr. Oliver D. Hamlin of Oakland. Calif., a founder and fellow of the American College of Surgeons...
Died, Henry Andrews Cotton, 64. director-emeritus of the New Jersey State Hospital, pioneer of modern methods for treating the insane; of a heart attack; in Trenton, N. J. Dementia praecox, melancholia and other mental defects he approached from a physical standpoint, seeking infections in teeth, tonsils or bowels as potential causes. When he assumed control of the State Hospital in Trenton. N. J. in 1907, he shocked physicians by removing all straitjackets, anklets, wristlets, straps. Friends claim that because of his researches the recovery rate among his patients leaped from...