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...Adolf Butenandt of Gottingen crystallized the female sex hormone theelin a few months after Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis had done so, thereby losing the scientific glory of priority. Last week Dr. Butenandt announced ahead of anyone else that he had crystallized the analagous masculine hormone. The new crystal yet lacks a name...
...president of Campbell Soup Co., a director of Pennsylvania Railroad, Prudential Life Insurance Co., Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, four other companies; after a heart attack, at his home in Cinnaminson, N.J. Dr. Dorrance had degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Gottingen, Germany. But such confidence had he in his canned, condensed soup idea that he went to work at $7.50 a week for a canning company, amassed a fortune of $22,000,000. With the exception of the late King Edward VII he was the only foreigner ever elected to membership in the French...
...forth from his cozy construction shack in the Lowell House yard into the cool of the evening air and the aloofness of Harvard Yard. The week's extra-curricular lectures open rather appropriately with "The Wandering Scholars and Mediaeval Latin Songs" by Professor Hilka of the University of Gottingen. Professor Hilka's discussion is scheduled for five o'clock this afternoon in Emerson...
William Hung, Professor of History in Yenching University, China, will lecture here on Chinese History. Otto Oldenburg, Professor of Physics at the University of Gottingen, Germany, will lecture on physics the first half year with special emphasis on molecular structure and band spectra...
...universities. Since the War thousands of U. S. students seeking a continental education have gone to the Sorbonne. Lately, the German universities have been recovering prestige and U. S. tuition fees. Soon, unless the French portraits help prevent it, young U. S. scientists and philosophers will flock to Heidelberg, Gottingen, Leipzig, Berlin, as numerously as they did when Wilhelm was Der Kaiser and attending the Sorbonne was considered not the greatest of intellectual gestures...