Word: gottingen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...displaying its ignorance of the college activities whose reporting is its only justification. When M. Ravel arrived for a two day stay with us, the news went on the front page. Well and good! But on that same day one of the world's leading physicists, Professor Franck of Gottingen, arrived for a four day stay during which time he delivered a series of three excellent lectures, and the CRIMSON doesn't know it yet! Wake up, old fossil, and become aware of the world about you, or else sink further into narrowness and ignorance and the well-earned contempt...
...European universities at which he has studied appeal to him, Professor-Ambassador Schurman (onetime President of Cornell University) will have to provide for the universities of London, Paris, Edinburgh, Berlin, Gottingen...
Professor Caratheodory, now of the University of Munich, received his degree of Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen in 1904. In 1908 he became professor of mathematics in the Lechnische Hoehschule of Hanover and then of Breslan. Since 1913 he has been professor of mathematics at the University of Gottingen, Berlin, Smyrna where he was also director of the university. Athens and Munich. He will lecture here during the second half year on mathematics...
Composer Handel, martial, romantic, won fame for impressive oratorios, the best known among them being The Messiah, Samson, Judas Maccabaeus. Lately, led by the University of Gottingen, Germans have resurrected some of the operas their countryman used to compose, sometimes in a fortnight's time, for production at the Haymarket Theatre, in the London of Addison and Steele, Alexander Pope and George I, the music-loving Hanoverian...
...years ago, Dr. Millikan was born at Morrison, Ill. Later at Oberlin College, he attacked Greek and mathematics with zest, took his first degree, an A. B., at 23. The next year, a graduate student and tutor there, his enthusiasm turned to physics. He pursued it at Columbia, Berlin, Gottingen. From 1902 to 1921 he charmed physics students at the University of Chicago. Since 1921 he has been Director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics at Pasadena, Calif...