Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, President of the University, from 1910 to 1933, George Lyman Kittredge '82, the world's authority on Shakspere, Chaucer, and practically everything else connected with English literature, and Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher--Harvard names to conjure with, but the Class of 1941 will not come under the magic of their spell...
...told off to appraise current technological trends and their probable impact on society. This group included President Frank Rattray Lillie of the National Academy of Sciences, President John Campbell Merriam of the Carnegie Institution, President Edward Charles Elliott of Purdue University, a handful of economists, educators and one mathematician. The subcommittee admitted that "invention is a great disturber," but also agreed with the defenders of Science that it creates new industries, new reservoirs of employment. Professor Ogburn suggested that if in 1900 the U. S. had had national planners who foresaw the development of the telephone, the airplane, the cinema...
Birkhoff, Garret. Gives poor, unorganized lectures, although a good mathematician...
...Psychologist C. R. Carpenter and Mathematician H. R. Phalen of Columbia University say they started their experiments with proper skepticism, using 24 subjects. Two of these made significantly high averages. When they tried 30 subjects on colored cards, instead of Rhine's ESP (ExtraSensory Perception) cards, four of the 30 made impressive scores...
...private investigator on a holiday with a drunken sidekick, Roscoe Karns, Overman finds himself following a woman in the holiday spirit, until they stumble across the scene of a crime. For the easy to look at lady is an ex-chanteuse and now wife of Keats College's brilliant mathematician, Professor Barry. Barry has become a corpse, whereat it is brought to light that many of the Faculty members owe gambling debts to him, while he himself was trying to muscle in on the metropolitan numbers racket. The chief oft the numbers racket is a boy fiend of the professor...