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...Altman took the monster to Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and laid it on the desk of Ichthyologist Eugene Willis Gudger. Dr. Gudger had never seen such a thing before but he is versed in old and curious lore, knew instantly what it was. It was, he told Mr. Altman, a "Jenny Haniver." Dr. Gudger photographed the thing, began a systematic collation of data on Jenny Hanivers, ancient and modern, which last week he published in the June Scientific Monthly...
Peace for a Jewish fammily was something unknown when Bloch grew up in Geneva. The community was strongly Gentile, still seething from the Dreyfus affair. In his home Bloch learned Jewish melodies, Jewish lore. There was money enough for him to study for a time in Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris. Then his father's jewelry business soured and he went home to peddle cuckoo-clocks. In 1916 Bloch landed in the U. S., as accompanist for Maud Allen, a dancer whose tour ended disastrously in Ohio. Bloch took a room in Manhattan. He was penniless but in his trunk...
...maker of Sunbeam automobiles and bicycles. A member of the House of Laity of the Church of England Assembly, Sir Charles is a hearty believer in the Holy Bible. Since 1925 he has spent a fortune on archaeological expeditions in Palestine, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Syria, to bolster up Biblical lore which in the past 150 years has been assailed by "Higher Criticism"-comparison of ancient texts and detective work on internal evidence. Last month Sir Charles published an account of his work: New Bible Evidence.* The potsherds, cuneiform tablets, scarabs, bricks, cartouches, scraps of foodstuffs and cloth brought to light...
Strictly a field science is oceanography. For investigations of great ocean rivers like the Labrador & Humboldt Currents and the Gulf Stream, of wind-driven surface currents, of the habits and distribution of marine life and of many another aspect of the sea's vast and various lore, oceanographers must record temperatures not only at the surface but at considerable depths. Nearly a century ago a Frenchman named Aimé used a "reversing thermometer" for taking depth temperatures in the Mediterranean. This instrument had a constriction in the tube above the bulb. Having been lowered to a measured depth...
...present the supposition seems to be that a man having once passed through the academic mill with sufficient credit is thereby automatically entitled to become the incumbent of a swivel chair from which to dispense his accumulated lore. Too many section men regard the expounding of text-books as their highest teaching mission and make no display whatever of the originality and imagination that is supposed to be theirs by virtue of their attainments. Yet because of the distribution and concentration requirements there is no escaping them. A few undergraduates, more fortunate than the rest, are aware of the heights...