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...late Professor Samuel Wilson Parr who was onetime (1928) president of the American Chemical Society...
...chapel seating 125 more. Two assembly halls may be combined to hold an audience of 1,100 for athletics or theatricals. Four Methodist churches combined to form the new congregation. The pastor is Dr. Walter John Sherman, who devoted ten years to the scheme. Laymen prominently involved: Fred D. Parr, president of Parr Terminal Co.; John H. McCallum, lumberman, president of the San Francisco Y.M.C.A...
...versity he must become quickly conversant with the facts which represent Illinois in the realm of scholarship and science. When he, with his wife and daughter, takes up residence in the president's house on Urbana's Nevada street next autumn, he will meet Professor Samuel Wilson Parr of the Chemistry department. It is to Professor Parr that Illinois chemists turn for solace and inspiration in chemical experimentation. More important than his own work in the chemistry of coal, is the part Professor Parr played in encouraging the sort of research which ultimately led Professor B. Smith Hopkins to discover...
When Henry VIII died, Elizabeth, 13, continued living with his widow, Katherine Parr, even after the latter had married Sir Thomas Seymour. Katherine and Seymour tickled Elizabeth awake in the mornings, but the wife finally grew jealous and ousted her. Katherine died in childbirth. Seymour was executed, charged with proposing marriage to Princess Elizabeth without young King Edward's consent. Finding herself under suspicion, the 15-year-old Princess craftily sought to prove herself not pregnant by offering to go "to the court . . . that I may show myself there as I am." Intrigues threw her in jail whence...
...Katherine Parr, widow, woman of great good sense and good will. Henry was 50, his face greasy and yellow in candlelight, his hands "broken out with rings." He was going to chop off her head, but she quietly talked...