Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Endocrine imbalance," or, in plain English, abnormal make-up of the secretions from the ductless glands, is susceptible to control by chemical methods, claims Dr. Josiah S. Hughes, professor of chemistry in the Kansas State Agricultural College. Compounds may be produced which will modify inherited dispositions, induce natural sleep, give the exhilaration of stimulants without their consequent depression, perform other miracles now undreamed of. It is only fair to say that psychiatrists and physiologists are still generally from Missouri" on such romantic possibilities...
...only American among the names of the most eminent chemists of all time inscribed along the front of the new Sterling Laboratory at Yale, is Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903), distinguished for his work on vector analysis, thermodynamics and the phase rule, and generally accounted the greatest exact scientist America has yet produced...
...fellowships and scholarships for the current year have been awarded by the Corporation. A John Harvard Fellowship in fine arts goes to M. F. Webber of Boston, a second-year graduate student; a University Scholarship to J. R. Brewster of Auburndale, a student in the Theological School; and the Josiah Dwight Whitney Scholarship for the summer study of field geology or geography to M. P. Billings '23, of Jamaica Plain...
...chairmen, and members of the Dinner Committee were appointed yesterday by the Executive Board of the Class of 1925. Lawrence Morris of New York, N. Y. was appointed chairman of the Business Committee and Gardner Cowles of Des Moines, Iowa, was appointed chairman of the Dinner Committee instead of Josiah Humphrey Child of Westwood, whose resignation was accepted by the Executive Board. Malcolm Whelen Greenough of Boston and George Saltonstall Mumford of Chestnut Hill were made sub-chairmen of the Dinner Committee...
...behalf of the members of our class, wish to extend our deepest sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Berry on the loss of their son, John Henry Berry. B. F. Rice-Bassett. Henry T. Dunker. Philip H. Robb. Frank Akers. Clark Hodder. John W. Hammond. Josiah H. Child...