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When the Massachusetts Legislature decided to require an oath of loyalty from every teacher in the State, a host of angry professors, led by impulsive Harvard Geologist Kirtley Mather, galloped out to do battle for the cause of academic freedom (TIME, Oct. 19). Because their universities dared not follow, the professors presently scampered back, took their oaths...
...Alfred Church Lane, 72, Tufts lost a distinguished geologist, onetime president of the Geological Society of America. Old Dr. Lane, well past the retirement age and eligible for a pension, observed that his fellow casualty ''has much more at stake." But Economist Earl Micajah Winslow, 39, a Mayflower descendant and a Quaker, will probably be welcomed as a martyr on the faculty of any university in the 22 states which have no teachers' oath...
...seismograph planted some distance away, studying the wavy lines on the seismograph record (TIME. Nov. 4). This set-up is called a geophone. Transplanting it to the sea floor and making it work there was like doing a chemical experiment at the bottom of a swimming pool. Nevertheless the geologist got to work, enlisted the technical ingenuity of Dr. William Maurice Ewing of Lehigh University. It was necessary to waterproof the dynamite charges, steel-jacket the seismographs, rig electrical connections and a device for determining whether the recorders on the bottom were level. After making sure that everything was shipshape...
...last week's Nobel Prize he has raised a family. Three sons live with him and Frau Spemann at Freiburg: one, a biologist; another, an architect; the third, an artist. A daughter is the wife of Professor Ernst Cloos, Johns Hopkins geologist...
...sought to register with the U. S. Securities & Exchange Commission and sell U. S. investors 100,000 shares of preferred stock at $1.50 a share. In its prospectus it based the value of its mine on the showing of a "mineral indicator" invented by "Professor Philip Haas, scientist and geologist with a world-wide reputation...