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Professor Copeland was the third member of the trio which included Bliss Perry and George Lyman Kittredge who, in the words of John Mason Brown, "...succeeded in making a classroom seem like a theatre." His voice became such a Harvard institution that he performed annual readings for the Harvard Union at Christmas time, for the Harvard Club of New York, and for a group of alumni who had formed the Charles Townsend Copeland Association in his honor...
...Ronald T. Lyman, Jr. of Boston has been appointed the Radcliffe College Marshal, President Wilbur K. Jordan has announced. She succeeds Mrs. John M. Maguire of Cambridge. She will plan and execute all formal academic functions at the College such as Commencement, Baccalaureate exercises and the fall opening of the college...
...simplest way to cut the physical and mental strain of space flight may be to make the crew unconscious, suggested Dr. John Lyman, U.C.L.A. associate professor of engineering and psychology. For most of the flight, he said, spacemen could be knocked out by drugs or low temperatures. They could be fed intravenously. To solve some of the same problems, Psychologist Donald Michael said that withdrawn personalities like schizophrenics or hermits might make fine spacemen, provided that they had the motivation to do their jobs. Eskimos or Buddhist monks might be good, too, because they come from "more sedentary, less timebound...
...last illness of Warren Harding, who lay disabled for five days in San Francisco's Palace Hotel before he died. Harding's attack was diagnosed at first as a stomach upset, was later complicated by bronchopneumonia. But after his death attending physicians, including Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur (sometime president of the A.M.A., president of Stanford University and later Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior) reported: "We all believe he died from apoplexy or the rupture of a blood vessel in the axis of the brain near the respiratory center." Close associates of Franklin Roosevelt agreed that...
Partisans in the third balcony were throwing chunks of wood at the stage, Frankie Lyman struggled about the platform, dwarfed in his 14-year-old grandiloquence by the microphone...