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Professor Jones will use as his general subject "Mysticism and Democracy in the English Commonwealth Period." He is a prominent educator and author of many books on theological and philosophical subjects. He was graduated from Haverford College, and after studying at the University of Heidelberg, he received the degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1901 and D.D. in 1922. In the same year he received the degree of LL.D. from both Swarthmore and Haverford. He is a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, president of the board since 1916, and of Brown University, while he has held his present professorship since...
...tubes which Dr. Slack seals so thinly are Lenard Ray tubes, invented by learned Professor Philipp Lenard of the University of Heidelberg, 1905 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Professor Lenard's tube, devised in the 1890's when modern physics was germinating, projects cathode rays through a thin aluminum or gold window. It requires a minimum of 70,000 volts to fire those rays through the metal windows. That voltage is expensive and difficult to handle...
Political discussion over the foaming beer mug appears to be one of the greatest attractions in the student life of Germany, aside from the pleasures of dueling. In Heidelberg the recent Hitlerite riot against the police brings out the vigor with which the men are willing to support their political opinions. The general apathy of American undergraduates toward national questions offers a marked contrast...
...President. To preside over their next year's meeting (in New Orleans) the scientists chose able Dr. Franz Boas, anthropologist of Columbia University. Born in Minden, Germany, 72 years ago, Dr. Boas became interested in ancient man at the Universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, Kiel. In 1887, three years after he returned from his first exploration, at Baffin Land, he married Marie Krackowizer of New York, has had three children. He has been a member of the anthropology department of Columbia for 34 years, belongs to 31 scientific societies...
...post of U. S. Minister to Hungary (TIME, Oct. 6). Other candidates were studied, discarded. Last week President Hoover turned to Texas and found his man- tall, slender, greying-haired George Charles Butte of Austin. Born in California 53 years ago, the new Vice Governor was educated at Heidelberg and Paris. He had special qualities to please his President: 1) he can speak Spanish fluently; 2) his service as Porto Rico's Attorney General (1925-28) proved him a good colonial administrator ; 3) as dean of the law school of the University of Texas...