Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other vigorous oldsters in the scientific limelight at Rochester last week were Professor Frederick George Novy, 71, of the University of Michigan, and President Edward Bausch, 81, of Rochester's Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. To Septuagenarian Dr. Novy, only living U. S. bacteriologist who studied under Pasteur (1822-95), one of the few living who studied under Koch (1843-1910), prototype of benign and learned Dr. Gottlieb in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith, Octogenarian Mr. Bausch, who still designs new optical devices, last week gave a newly completed microscope, 250,000th built by Bausch & Lomb during 60 years of manufacturing...
...rowdier than any other U. S. seat of learning is the College of the City of New York, many of whose 22,000 politically-minded students seem to get their best fun at mass meetings or on picket lines. Completely antipodal is C. C. N. Y.'s President Frederick Bertrand Robinson, goateed, independent oldster who dresses conservatively, plays the cello, hates the rude manners of his undergraduates. After President Robinson characterized some C. C. N. Y. demonstrators as "guttersnipes" and trounced a dozen of the rowdiest of them with his umbrella, a committee of alumni solemnly found that...
...members supervise the affairs of the city's three free colleges,* met to decide whether or not they should fire President Robinson. The Board apparently divided along strictly political lines. Six of the seven members appointed by liberal little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia scorned the majority recommendation that Frederick Bertrand Robinson should be retained, but with disciplinary powers clipped. When the Board voted further to select a subcommittee to figure how this was to be done, two members, Art Critic Lewis Mumford and Scripps-Howard Financial Pundit John T. Flynn, disgustedly snorted: "Whitewash...
After years of complaints from residents of Mt. Kisco, Katonah and Bedford Hills, N. Y., President Frederick Ely Williamson of New York Central Railroad, which runs through these swank suburban towns, last week visited them, listened carefully, agreed to put whistles on his trains which will emit a soothing "Beep" instead of a shrill "Toot...
...experiments with cocoa trees and with his military instructions, constantly expounded both to amuse his young mistress. "It was, in fact," she recalled later, "a dead bore." She did not deceive Craven, although she often thought of it. "How, indeed, could I do otherwise, when the Honorable Frederick Lamb was my constant visitor, and talked to me of nothing else?" The Honorable Frederick was Craven's closest friend. "I firmly believe," Harriette wrote, "that Frederick Lamb sincerely loved me, and deeply regretted that he had no fortune to invite me to share with...