Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Palmer Dixon '25, National Squash Racquets Champion, will use the University courts for practice two or three days before the opening of the National Tournament on February 19, it was announced last night...
...Immortality Necessary? Can We Avoid It?" is the subject of the first lecture of the second part of this year's series, and will be delivered by Dr. Frederic Palmer '69, editor of the Harvard Theological Review, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The following Sunday "Philosophy of Religion" will be the subject of a lecture by Professor James H. Woods '87, Chairman of the University Department of Philosophy, and on March 2, Professor James B. Pratt '99, Professor of Philosophy, Williams College, will discuss "Faith and Worship...
Eight or nine years ago Palmer H. Craig was working for his doctors' degree at the University of Cincinnati. He had majored in physics so his thesis consisted chiefly of reports on numerous experiments. He spent weeks on experiments of different kinds. Some were failures, some were partially successful. He labored hard for he was interested in his work...
...chapel announcements at Mercer University (Macon, Ga.) were more interesting than usual one morning last week. They included the romantic story of a hardworking young professor suddenly grown rich. He was Palmer H. Craig, 29, head of the Mercer physics department, a doctor of philosophy only these seven months. While working up his doctor's thesis at the University of Cincinnati he had made an invention. Now the Westinghouse Electric Co. had offered him $100,000. The invention, simplicity itself, was designed to replace the batteries and vacuum tubes of the ordinary radio receiving set. It consisted...
...from the beer-spotted newspapers left by customers he had learned how to read. He was, he guessed, clever as a kid, for he had risen swiftly to heights of bartending. Before he was 21 he had reigned over a prodigious expanse of dazzling brass and mahogany in the Palmer House, right there in Chicago. Ask anyone. Then the Windsor out in Denver had sent for him and he was doing pretty good out there, selling cigar boxes full of shiny mineral specimens on the side. Denver was a red hot town for someone with some money to make...