Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These seven Counselors will hold, apparently, one year appointments and are to perform no other teaching function than that of armchair pedagogues who sit and wait for pupils to ferret them out. From the lively group of Yardlings already on the trail of Americana under the direction of the Freshman...
I, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE-Leslie Hotson-Oxford University Press ($3). Leslie Hotson is the Sherlock Holmes of Elizabethan scholars who first uncovered the mystery of Marlowe's death (TIME, Oct. 16, 1933). In this book he reviews the career, family background and political connections of Thomas Russell, the overseer of...
More than a third of the undergraduates are involved in the production including the Wellesley choir directed by Edward B. Green, the college orchestra under the baton of Malcolm H. Holmes '23, the Baruswallows Society and a group of ballet dancers.
A U. S. scholar who takes great interest in illegitimate births is Zoologist Samuel Jackson Holmes of the University of California. Last week he announced his analysis of the Census Bureau's latest annual (1934) survey of U. S. bastardy. In that year out of every 1,000 childbirths...
Professor Holmes has been collating illegitimacy statistics for years, commenting on their trend. In the November 1936 issue of Population, a British journal, he declared: "There is no escape from the conclusion that larger and larger proportions of our population are coming to be of illegitimate origin." Causes for the...