Word: farrand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Margaret Farrand Thorp heard that 85,000,000 persons buy admissions every week to 17,000 movie houses in 9,000 U. S. towns & villages, she decided to find out why. She also wanted to know who the 85,000,000 are, what movies do to them and how they do it. Recently Author Thorp published her findings. Though she modestly says that any such book as hers (America at the Movies, Yale University Press; $2.75) must be "inadequate," "inaccurate," "written rapidly and superficially," to many a reader it may seem crisp, witty, just-a comprehensive roundup of candid...
Died. Dr. Livingston Farrand, 72, modest, beloved president-emeritus of Cornell University; of bronchopneumonia and empyema; in Manhattan. A public health authority, a physician by training, he took leave of absence from the presidency of the University of Colorado (1914-19) to direct a civilian war against tuberculosis in France, stayed to guide Red Cross rehabilitation of millions of eastern and central European children...
Leader of the group was Columbia University's top-notch Chemist Harold C. Urey, discoverer of "heavy water." Other members included Vassar's President Henry Noble MacCracken, Cornell's ex-President Livingston Farrand, Harvard's Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, Columbia's William Heard Kilpatrick. They proposed that U. S. colleges give sanctuary and scholarships to the students fleeing the universities of the Fascist countries "because of their belief in democracy." They would be selected by the International Student Service, chosen for ability to make "a positive contribution to American life." Dr. Urey hoped that large...
CHARLES KINGSLEY-Margaret Farrand Thorp-Princeton University Press ($3). Amiable biography of the Victorian novelist-preacher-reformer who became the Queen's chaplain and paragon. Macmillan's most profitable novelist, he is little known today except as the author of The Water-Babies...
...Anon to Dean Diederichs, with the nearest thing to date to a direction for his money's use: "I shall be glad to have it applied to the endowment fund of the College of Engineering, if you think that will be the most helpful place." President Farrand agreed that the hitherto unendowed College of Engineering should keep the check as a start. Said he: "I must ask the press to express the thanks of the University. .. ." President Farrand declined to tell on what banks L. H. Anon's checks had been drawn...