Word: jeffreys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. A centaur is beast and god ? and both without fear or shame. Jeffrey Dwyer was a centaur, in his youth...
When Joan Converse, child of a rich, unpleasant mother who went through life simmering in a tepid steam of easy admiration, and an ineffective father whom Mrs. Converse had discarded from her egocentric cosmos like a rejected peachpit, first met Jeffrey, she fell in love with him ?instanter and unwaveringly?in spite of the facts that he was a crazy undergraduate poet with a wild reputation and that his devotion to spoiled, lovely Inez Martin was well known. In fact, for a long, long time Joan didn't seem to have even half a chance...
...phases of the greatest of scientific enigmas will be handled by professors eminent in their departments: Professor Harlow Shapley, who will discuss "Life Throughout the Universe", is director of the Harvard College Observatory and is noted for his theory concerning the expansion and contraction of variable stars. Professor E.C. Jeffrey G. '99, who will speak on "Early Phases of Terrestrial Life", is an authority on plant morphology, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Kirsopp Lake, who will close the evening with an address on "Life and Spirit", is Winn professor of ecclesiastical history...
...general subject of the first symposium will be "The Origin of Life", and each professor will consider a certain special aspect of the subject. Professor Shapley is to discuss "Life throughout the Universe"; Professor Jeffrey will speak on "Early Phases of Terrestrial Life", and Professor Lake will treat "Life and Spirit...
Professor Jeffrey received his degree of A. B. at the University of Toronto in 1888, and a Doctor of Science degree in 1919, and at the University received his Ph.D. in 1898. Since 1902 Dr. Jeffrey has been teaching here, first as assistant professor of vegetable histology and now as professor of plant morphology. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Canadian Institute...