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Friedrich Berglus, of Heidelberg; Chemistry. Nobel Prize winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: List of Today's 62 Degree Recipients | 9/18/1936 | See Source »

...Dawes and his Chicago millions could put on a show to make the American public Harvard-conscious to an undreamed of degree. It would be no less hypocritical to rejoice if this were a university from which all attributes but old age had long since field. Leave that to Heidelberg and Bologna...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE HUNDRED YEARS OLD | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

HARVEY B. HEIDELBERG JR. Jackson, Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...Nations' library at Geneva was built and stocked with 2,000,000 Rockefeller Jr. dollars. The Palestine Archeological Museum got $1,680,000. Half a million helped build the Shakespeare Memorial Foundation theatre at Stratford upon Avon. A million and a half went to Germany's Heidelberg and Göttingen Universities, London's University College, China's Lingnan University, Japan's Tsuda College. Mr. Rockefeller's biggest single foreign handout was to France's Comité Franco-Américain pour la Restauration des Monuments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rockefeller Reward | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...still has plenty of timekeeping talent in the person of President Ralph H. Matthiessen, scion of the other GTI clock family. The first clock-making Matthiessen was a German immigrant with a Heidelberg education who made good with a zinc smelter in La Salle, Ill. He had an idea that clocks could be soldered together instead of riveted, at a great saving. In 1885 he founded Western Clock Co. near his smelter. His competitors called his Westclox line "lead clocks," but they sold faster & faster, and in 1910 Western made clock history by pricing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Old Timekeepers | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

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