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They are Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, President of the University from 1910 to 1933; George Lyman Kittredge '82, indisputably the world's authority on Shakspere, Chaucer, and much else of English literature; Charles Townsond Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetorie and Oratory, emeritus, the "Copey" who has been literary father of many American writers; and Alfred North Whitehead, the brilliant mathematician and philosopher...
...foremost of today's musical scientists is 72-year-old, white-haired Psychologist Carl Emil Seashore, dean emeritus of the Graduate College of Iowa State University. Last week, Dean Seashore published a highly technical volume* containing the results of a lifetime's research in musical psychology. Psychologist Seashore's volume explains the psychological nature of consonance and dissonance, of accentuation in piano playing, of a singer's vibrato. "One is at once impressed," admits Psychologist Seashore, "with the appalling task which this inceptive science has assumed for itself, and how undeveloped the work is within this...
...apparent on Ohio State's campus was keen young J. Lewis Morrill, once a newspaperman and now university vice president. Last week the university's board of trustees met to appoint Dr. Rightmire's successor. Then newsmen hurried to the house of 74-year-old Professor-Emeritus William McPherson, former dean of the Graduate School, to startle him with the news that he had been elected the university's acting president...
...bombings of British ships by Spanish Insurgents, Elder Statesman David Lloyd George, never willy-worded himself, assailed Great Britain's "twittering little protests," demanded "since when has the British lion been like that?'' In court for misbehavior on a public highway were: Harvard's President Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, who had his Massachusetts license permanently revoked after two accidents last August, sued for $35,000 damages; Peter G. Lehman, son of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who paid a $2 fine for improper parking; German-American Bundleader Fritz Kuhn, who was fined...
...faculty.* He is doing important work, however, and it has been understood that he would go on with it after retirement. At the last moment Dr. Wood persuaded Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman that since his labors would continue he should have a more active title than Professor Emeritus. So this week, when Dr. Wood appears at the Johns Hopkins commencement ceremonies in his formal academic regalia, Dr. Bowman is to announce his appointment as Research Professor of Physics, for one year beginning September...