Word: pedagogic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chum and fellow Republican National Committeeman, President William Henry Crocker of Crocker First National Bank of San Francisco (who arrived last week in Manhattan). It was revealed that for nearly 25 years, since they first met at the Bohemian Club's jolly grove near San Francisco, Pedagog Butler and Banker Crocker have been regaling each other across the continent, exchanging things they find amusing. Sometimes they send jokes, sometimes crank letters; but mostly clippings of those little boxed stories called "freaks"' which are the delight of make-up men striving to fill holes on their front pages. Explained...
...Raymond Mcley, professor of public law at Columbia University. Professor Moley gave damaging testimony against Sachem Crain not by word of mouth but by a series of pitilessly clear charts which told in bold, graphic fashion the story of Mr. Crain's sorry administration. The Columbia pedagog's diagrams showed that the ratio of homicide convictions to known homicides had dropped to its lowest ebb in 25 years during the first year (1930) that Mr. Crain was prosecutor for New York County. Percentage of convictions for robbery, burglary, grand larceny and assault had done likewise...
...each made scholarly contributions to the art and practice of drinking. Professor Yandell, interested in the toxicological aspect of tippling, announced in the Yale News that a tosspot would have to down two litres (one-half gal.) of 4% beer every hour to become intoxicated. "General experience shows," amended Pedagog Yandell, "that few persons care to drink two litres in an hour. Under my definition [that 80 cc. of alcohol can be absorbed in the system in one hour], therefore, beer containing 3% or 4% of alcohol by volume is not intoxicating." "A cordial or liqueur," he continued, "such...
...pedagog violates professional ethics by accepting other side jobs from private concerns. Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, lately of Princeton, now president of M. I. T. used to do research work for General Electric Co. President William Elgin Wickenden of Case School of Applied Science worked for the personnel department of Bell Telephone Co. while...
Famed are Berkeley's pedagogs, among them: Professor Herbert McLean Evans, discoverer of vitamin E; Professor Charles Atwood Kofoid, celebrated zoölogist, Professor Robert Heinrich Lowie., onetime (1913-21) curator of the American Museum of Natural History; Professor Gilbert Newton Lewis, whose theory of Time-Past and Time-Future may win him the Nobel Prize (TIME, April 28) ; Professor Andrew Cowper Lawson, international geologist, onetime (1914-18) dean of the College of Mining. For his good humor as well as his capabilities, dear to the heart of many a Californian is Professor Emeritus Charles Mills Gayley, pedagog and poetaster...