Word: institutee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When chubby little Norbert Wiener was 14, he graduated from Tufts College. Reporters hailed him, and parents of ordinary children predicted that he would be a flash in the pan. When Norbert was 18, he emerged from Harvard with a Ph.D. and an academic halo which grew brighter as he...
They are a disgrace." At the same time enthusiasm marked the 40th convention of the Society of American Bacteriologists in San Francisco. For 38-year-old Dr. Walther Frederick Goebel of the Rockefeller Institute Hospital announced that he had produced artificially a successful pneumonia antigen. (An antigen is a substance...
Josephine Hancock Logan, who is pleased to be the donor of the annual Logan prize to Chicago's Art Institute but does not like the modernist quality of recent prizewinning paintings, engineered a rival exhibition of pictures to show "Sanity in Art." Among her placid lady guests and her...
Good modern architects have something which good U. S. communities want. This encouraging fact appeared two years ago in the appointment of Bauhaus-Founder Walter Gropius, professor in Harvard's architectural department, last year in the opening of Chicago's New Bauhaus. This week it appeared again when...
for one beautiful house, at Brno, Czechoslovakia. He was Director of the Dessau Bauhaus from 1930 to 1933. On his first visit to the U. S. last year, his friend John Augur Holabird of the esteemed Chicago firm of Holabird & Root interested Mies van der Rohe in Chicago, the Armour...