Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...other biographies, Emil Ludwig takes factual material already at hand -in this case Ernest K. Lindley's The Roosevelt Revolution and Half Way with Roosevelt-draws his own "psychological" picture. No study of Franklin Roosevelt in house slippers, the result is something like an expensive, formal portrait by a visiting European painter, something like an official cinema shot...
...Henry K. Oliver Professorship foundation put the Hygiene Department on a formal basis in 1915, with Dr. Roger I. Lee, present member of the Corporation, as the first holder of the chair. He was the first to have several assistants, and he it was who made physical education compulsory for Freshmen and started routine physical examinations. Offices of the department were then in Sever Hall, but with the appointment of Dr. Alfred Worcester in 1924, Wadsworth House became the department's headquarters, and two branch offices were set up. Dr. Worcester inaugurated such basic operations of the department...
...When the two-man Board went ahead with its work without him, he sought to prove their actions invalid. Then they adopted a formal rule of majority procedure, and thereafter Chairman Morgan was not isolated by them, but "by his own action, removed himself" from the Board's work by chronic dissent, or by absence (28 out of 94 meetings...
Into Dublin's Department of Agriculture Building last week strode a 78-year-old, tall, erect, walrus-mustached Gaelic scholar. There, flanked by Eire Ministers, high court justices and Parliament leaders, this poet, playwright and author, Dr. Douglas Hyde by name, received from Civil Servant Wilfrid Brown formal notification in Gaelic that he had been elected first President of Eire. No vote-counting was necessary for Civil Servant Brown to reach this conclusion, for Dr. Hyde had been chosen by both Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail Party and William T. Cosgrave's Opposition Party...