Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intimate relation between criminology and pathology. ... A pickpocket who for future identification is merely 'fingerprinted' may, if properly examined, be found to have highly developed homicidal tendencies. The same may be true of any mere misdemeanant-just as a patient brought to hospital because of a minor disorder may be found to be suffering from a serious contagious disease of which his obvious condition was a premonitory symptom...
...Fosdick made minor conditions which were also accepted: his salary is not to exceed $5,000; he must continue his teaching at Union Theological Seminary; a larger church, seating 2,500, must be built in the neighborhood of Columbia University, several miles from the residential district in which the church is now located. And also, as a graceful gesture, Dr. Fosdick could not accept until the Presbyterian General Assembly officially refused to permit the First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to take him back into its pulpit. It was thought that the church members would follow their leaders in accepting the Fosdick...
...course it is not possible to include the ballots of the undergraduate and alumni bodies in decisions of minor importance. But certainly all members of the faculty, professors, assistant professors and instructors should sit in faculty meetings and have some voice in affairs. Small wonder the less distinguished members of that august body are dissatisfied when they are ignored! Small wonder they pack up and go to a university which does not refuse to recognize their potentialities by a guarantee that they will be maintained for a reasonable length of time. Yale cannot afford to sacrifice good teachers to other...
Lacking all records from past committees the present Jubilee Committee is leaving a complete account of its work, and particularly its innovations. Many minor changes have been made this year, particularly in the matter of return checks. The Boylston Street gate to the Smith Quadrangle will be opened at 6 o'clock, but no return checks will be given there...
Died. Dr. Johann Palisa, 77, Austrian astronomer, director of the Vienna University Observatory; in Vienna. He discovered 124 minor planets without photographic...