Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent meeting of the American Zoological Society at New Orleans, Professor G. H. Parker '87, director of the Zoological Laboratories, reported the discovery of evidence of "hormone-like substances" circulating through the nerves at a very slow rate...
Kentucky colonels including Radioactor Phillips ("Seth Parker") Lord. Publisher John B. Gallagher of the Louisville Herald-Post and Banker Charles Bradley of Newark, N. J. There were five death sentences to be commuted to life imprisonment. A blind magistrate who had robbed a Baptist church was to be paroled. So was a Paducah woman who had murdered with dynamite. The Governor reduced 150 prison sentences and closed his executive journal with clemency for a 'legger...
...preparatory school. Most students cram for a week, hope that luck will carry them through Divvers; but many try it several times before succeeding. To consider abolishing Divvers, the Congregation (an official body) of Oxford met lately in Sheldonian Theatre, debated for go minutes. Proposing abolition, a Mr. Parker of Magdalen said that the examination should be given before, not after, matriculation. Alarmed, the practical Provost of Oriel demanded how the University, in that case, could make good the loss in examination fees. Most of the Congregation, however, agreed with Dr. Kenneth Escott Kirk that the present examination was "unworthy...
...preparatory school. Most students cram for a week, hope that lick will carry them through Divvers; but many try it several times before succeeding. To consider abolishing Divvers, the Congregation (an official body) of Oxford met lately in Sheldonian Theatre, debated for 90 minutes. Proposing abolition, a Mr. Parker of Magdalen said that the examination should be given before, not after, matriculation. Alarmed, the practical Provost of Oriel demanded how the University, in that case, could make good the loss in examination fees. Most of the Congregation, however, agreed with Dr. Kenneth Escott Kirk that the present examination was "unworthy...
...CLASS SECRETARY *John DcQuedville Briggs, Jr. 79 Eustis Dearborn 73 Alexander Cochrane Forbes 57 Augustin Hamilton Parker, Jr. 44 FOR PERMANENT CLASS COMMITTEE *Norwood Penrose Hallowell 213 *Charles Crchore Cunningham 185 *Oscar Sutermeister 171 *James Barr Ames 144 *William Peck Elwell 126 *Beekman Pool 112 Frederick Fessenden Wilder 109 Arthur Willing Patterson 95 George Keith Martin 94 Elting Elmore Morison 75 Josiah Macy Erickson 70 William Francis Brooks 67 Duaue Weills Rainbolt 61 FOR CLASS DAY COMMITTEE *Edmund Austin Mays, Jr. 196 *Robert Morrison Faxon 143 *Wilson Hill Crosby 137 *Thomas Eliss Armstrong 131 *Donald Murdoch Frame 115 *Otto Ernest...