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More than 50 other German-Jewish professors of pure, applied and medical sciences have either been forced to resign or have been rudely thrown out of their chairs. No other eminent scientists have followed the example of Professor Hermann Jacobsohn, Indo-Germanic philologist at Marburg, who threw himself under a train. But many a Jew in Germany is known to be carrying an ampoule of poison for escape in case of race riot...
...same year that Albert Frank founded his firm, Rudolph Guenther was born in Vienna, the son of a philologist. His father immigrated to the U. S., be came managing editor of the Milwaukee Herald. Son Rudolph grew up in the circulation and advertising offices of news papers, at 16 established the Lake View (Ill.) Review with his brother Louis as staff. Brother Louis Guenther is now publisher of The Financial World. Rudolph ventured to Manhattan with capital of $3 in 1896, set himself up as an advertising agent the following year. Like Albert Frank he prospered, now collects rare books...
...Eskimo language, invented a typewriter upon which he typed hymnbooks, prayer-books, catechisms in Eskimo script. With other missionaries at Chesterfield Inlet he built a radio transmitter so that Eskimos may grunt at each other over the frigid air. Monsignor Turquetil, bearded nobly and baldheaded, is an able philologist. But chiefly he can gain converts by telling them how best to fish. Says he: "Taking fish out of the net is no easy job. If you take your hands out of the water for more than a second they will freeze solid. The only way is to take the cartilage...
Fortuitously Marcus Daly then met Dr. John H. Durston, a learned philologist who had abandoned a professorship at Syracuse University to edit the Syracuse Standard, which he quit in the heat of an editorial dispute. In his own luxurious Montana Hotel (to which an extra story had been added because "it didn't look good enough") Daly opened his checkbook and commanded Dr. Durston to build for him, there in the sprawling, brawling smelter village of Anaconda, "the best newspaper that can be made." Editor Durston imported two of his associates from the Syracuse Standard and set to work...
Here is material for everyone: inscriptions for the philologist, man's life cycle fully illustrated for the anthropologist, and objects of beauty for the lover of art. Whether it be the reliefs of the Assyrians from Khorsabad, the delicate gold and lapis of the Sumerians at Ur of the Chaldies, or the subtle modeled terra cotta of the Houri at Nuzi does not matter much. Each has its distinct and separate appeal...