Word: heidelberg
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Albert became an instructor in physics at the Naval Academy, and then continued his studies at Heidelberg. Soon afterward he began to acquire the reputation that won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1907 and distinctions and degrees without number. He was, for example, the first to measure the diameter of distant stars...
Educated at Lyons College, Ia., at the University of Iowa, at Heidelberg, Zürich, Berne, Leipzig, Berlin, Dr. Pat rick has long been charmed by "divine philosophy." Also, she is a linguist, a Classics devotee. It was not announced whether or not she would now return...
What did the War do to German universities ? Hear* P. Stepun (Russian) who studied 16 years ago at Heidelberg: Heidelberg in 1908. "In the days when I studied at Heidelberg the life of the town was governed in every detail by the University. It was not so much a University town as a town attached to a University. All the residents seemed to live there exclusively in order to rent rooms to the students, to feed them at the cafes and restaurants, to sell them books, to photograph them on foot and on horseback, singly and in groups, with courtplastered...
Emanuel Lasker, before his defeat by Capablanca, had held the championship for nearly 30 years. He alone links the names of Steinitz, Tschigorin, Pillsbury to the present. After studying in Prussian schools and winning a Doctorate of Mathematics at Heidelberg (see Education, this issue), he took up chess professionally...
...born at La Porte, Ind., in 1882. He is a graduate of the Universities of Notre Dame (Ind.), Heidelberg and Freiburg. He got his M.D. from the last in 1906. It is said that while he studied in Germany he lived on nuts, herbs and other uncooked foods, wore sandals, scanty clothes, and committed other eccentricities. But he came back with every appearance of normality and founded the Interlaken School at La Porte, the school where boys do all their own work, from carpentry up. Later he went into the manufacture of tractors and other farm machinery, without much success...