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...amazingly clever reproductions of Manhattan's famed library-reading room, Braille room, entrance lobby, even one of the snooty stone lions that guard the portals. Roaming through the vast institution with more sinister motives than are common to real life, a blind woman (Ellen Hall), her husband (Arnold Korff) and a good many other people get into a good many messes, read very few books...
Having accepted the ability of masters of celestial mechanics to predict the paths and times of eclipses years ahead, laymen are surprised when the prophecies are a few miles or a few seconds in error. Last week in Peru Dr. Serge A. Korff of the Carnegie Institution reported that the eclipse lasted ten seconds longer than the computations called for, and a Japanese savant declared that it began ten seconds later than expected. The fault is not with human mathematics, but with a mysterious wobbling of the moon from its orbit...
Professor Hermann A. Korff Kune Francke Professor of German Art and Culture will give six public lectures in German at the Germanic Museum on Tuesday at 4.30 o'clock beginning March...
From 1923 to 1925 Professor Korff was at the University of Giessen. Since he has been Professor of German Literature at the University of Leipzig. He is a widely known scholar in the field of German Classical and Romantic literature...
...second half of the year, Dr. Rosenstock-Hussy is to be succeded by Professor Herman A. Korff...