Word: masons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college year, he put in order the minutes of faculty meetings as a good secretary should. An earnest student, he devoted his increased leisure to redoubled efforts among differential equations, the calculus of variations, physical applications of mathematical theory. A skilled inventor, he answered correspondence concerning the Mason hydrophone, by which United States and British warships detected submarines during the War. A good provider and thoughtful husband, he packed his wife and three children off to a cool northern camp when hot weather came, planning to join them when he might...
Then, one day last week, Dr. Max Mason awoke to find himself a national figure in his walk of life. The faculty-trustee committee in Chicago, weighing all things, had named him their man and he had been unanimously elected head of as prominent a university as there was in his country...
...Mason was prompt in his acceptance, saying: "I am deeply conscious of the honor conferred...
...also must the shades of Dr. Mason's hardy Wisconsin ancestors have rejoiced. They had seen him born, in 1877, at Madison in the state they pioneered, had watched him through the grade schools and into the university, where he studied so well that he was graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa key at 21, jumped so high as a stripling Sophomore that he wore a large "W" on his chest for three years, conducted himself so genially that his friends were many, so adroitly that he won a professor's daughter to wife. After some post-graduate...
...President-elect Mason's acumen and administrative gifts there is no doubt. The large affairs* of Chicago university are safe in the hands of a man who has had high marks, not only in the pedagogical engineering of Wisconsin but also in handling men and moneys as a member of the National Re-search Council. Wondering about his personality, Chicago learned: that he likes a joke and tells a good one; that he is amiable as well as earnest, democratic as well as exacting; that he is something of a sportsman, a speedy winner of affections, an unselfish devotee...