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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...omniscience. She out-poker-faces that other Helen of California, and she knows instantly every rill of information that affects or may affect the University. Is there an unwise movement developing in the student body? She touches invisible button number one, and the matter ends. Does a faculty member sponsor a doubtful local issue? Invisible button number two avoids the difficulty, and it is done so skillfully that neither student nor faculty member holds the slightest rancor, nor in fact quite knows how it all came about...
...Senate, longest in U. S. history, Death came last week to Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming. Past 85, he resisted but briefly the incursion of bronchial pneu- monia. His son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, was at his bedside. He was the Senate's oldest member, its last Civil War veteran. Massachusetts-born, he went west after the Civil War, helped found the city of Cheyenne (1873). He was Wyoming's first Governor (1890). As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for twelve years, he helped supervise the expenditure of some 40 billions of public funds...
...Other living Emerson descendants: One son. Edward Waldo Emerson of Concord, Mass., biographer and physician. Two grandsons: Edward Waldo Forbes, director of Harvard's Fogg Museum: Dr. Alexander Forbes, member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School...
...goal of the Library is still a long way off, especially in its lack of adequate foreign material. According to one member of the staff, the Baker Library may be said to have passed adolescence and is approaching maturity, but still has a serious task ahead if it is to live up to its present splendid promise...
Besides being a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Coolidge has been prominent in various mathematical organizations. He is member and ex-vice-presdent of the American Mathematical Society; member and ex-president of the Mathematical Association of America; and ex-president of the Association of Mathematics Teachers in New England...