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Professor Emeritus George H. Shull, of Princeton, had this to say: "Why did I invest in a perpetual subscription? Believe it or not, I did it because I thought that in this way I could help in the establishment of a type of periodical previously non-existent and which seemed to me to promise the greatest possible contribution to a self-governing democracy...
Died. Dr. Isaiah Bowman, 71, president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University and No. 1 U.S. geographer; in Baltimore. A precise and methodical geographical explorer, Dr. Bowman advised Woodrow Wilson at Versailles on post-World War I boundaries, served in the same capacity at the 1945 San Francisco Conference...
Isaiah Bowman '05, University Overseer and president emeritus of Johns Hopkins, died of a heart attack Friday in Baltimore, at the age of 71. The noted geographer retired a year ago from John Hopkins after serving as its head for 14 years...
...Implications. A quarter century ago, with another cast of characters dredged out of mythology, Novelist John Erskine zoomed into bestsellerdom with The Private Life of Helen of Troy, a smooth, sophisticated novel which gave Helen & Co. the immediacy of next-door neighbors. Erskine is now 70 and a professor emeritus of Columbia University, but he appears to have lost little of the confident urbanity and slick malice that became his literary trademarks. Always gallant, his defense of his Venus is both tolerant and graceful: "Her infidelities were only apparent, they were never more than intermittent, and she always went home...
...back as 1936 surgeons were working out a way to treat a psychosis by an operation called prefrontal lobotomy-the last resort for schizophrenics and manic-depressives. Using a technique devised by the University of Lisbon's emeritus professor Dr. Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, skilled neurosurgeons cut away important nerve connections in the prefrontal brain lobe (a seat of reasoning) and the thalamus in the rear of the brain (a way station for emotional responses). The operation's aim: helping the patient to a better adjustment with his environment...