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...ORRIN K. WARD...
...then in his sophomore year at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa he took Professor Orrin H. Smith's physics course. Under Smith, particles became a whirl of whizzing elephants and bouncing basketballs, and science a series of problems involving such exotic matters as Joshua's stopping the earth's rotation to make the sun stand still. ("Given the coefficient of friction between the green grass and the soldiers' britches, how long would it take Joshua to slow down the earth without sliding the soldiers off the battlefield?") DuBridge found himself "enthralled by physics...
...ORRIN RILEY Nixon...
Idea for the course came from the law school's Dean Orrin Evans, who has long felt that a lot of lawyers are not cultured enough-and that law students needed a breather from their case books. Ten months ago, Professor William Davenport of the university's English department started to compile a bibliography, by now has found more than 200 works by or about lawyers. Among the first items studied by his students: Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster, Willa Gather's Paul's Case. Davenport also gives students...
...reputedly borrowed his "O. Henry" pen name from Orrin Henry, a guard at Ohio State penitentiary, where Porter served three years and three months in the '903 for embezzlement of bank funds...