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Professor Richards has now received honors from nearly every country in recognition of his work in chemistry. In 1914, he was awarded the Nobel prize for chemical research...
Then the League of Nations seized his imagination. Under the leadership of Wilson he helped draft the Covenant. In 1919 he received the Nobel Peace prize. On Jan. 16, 1920, he presided as first Chairman of the Council of the League at its first meeting in Paris. In 1923 he resigned the Presidency of the French Senate, which he had held since 1918, in order to devote himself to the League. The recent session of the League Council found him too ill to attend. But he died in a measure triumphant, "the Spiritual Father of the League...
Theodore William Richards, Harvard '86, "foremost chemist in the U. S. university world," Nobel Laureate (1914), Davy medalist (1910), Faraday medalist (1911), Franklin, Gibbs and LeBlanc medalist, is still active at Harvard. Hammond Lamont was a classmate of Richards, himself distinguished in scholarship and undergraduate journalism...
Cinema? "Development must come from the centre, not from the periphery." Nobel Prizes? "The prize-winners are like the modest hotels in Baedeker -'well spoken of: " American "hustle"? "George [Washington] did not run around like a mouse in oxygen as the modern American does." Sex in literature ? "When Linnaeus first wrote on the fertilization of plants, botany was denounced as corrupting to morals. . . . If a man holds up a mirror to your nature and shows you that it needs washing-not white-washing-it is no use breaking the mirror. Go for soap and water." Alleged pro-Germanism...
Novels are not included and in no sense will the list interfere with the future of the Nobel Institute, as every nation is to choose its own best books on a quota basis...