Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked if he had anything to say about the honor conferred upon him, the popular professor laughed, said "I'm six feet three, don't smoke, and I don't use Pond's Vanishing Cream...
Most audacious of astronomical showmen is James Stokley, director since 1933 of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. Big, stooped Mr. Stokley (rhymes with Annie Oakley) this week arrives in Pittsburgh to become director of the Buhl Institute of Popular Science and Buhl Planetarium (to open this fall...
...Popular, petite debutante daughter of a wealthy Mississippi plantation owner, Anne Walter annoyed her mother by studying medicine in San Francisco and Philadelphia. Then she went to China as substitute head of the Women's Hospital in Soochow, a "city of unmentionable sights and indescribable smells." Her energy got her the nickname "Small Typhoon." Buddhist priests spread the rumor that she would gouge out patients' eyes and mix them with copper to make silver. The sick frequently preferred "the death road" by hanging themselves rather than try her medicine...
Terbert H. Macdonald '40, captain elect of the football squad expressed the feelings of several athletic leaders when he declared that the Council's plan would "kill out interest in a lot of minor sports here at Harvard." He also mentioned the coaching angle (which proved to be a popular rallying point for opponents of the plan) and said that it would be impossible for a coach to spread his time over a group of House teams and do as good a job as he would on but one intercollegiate squad...
Unfortunately the Saturday session of the Conference instead of being the more popular and practical was a sad commentary on the Conference's powers of self-advertisement. Possibly next year, and there will have to be "a next year" if the conference idea is to go on, the leaders will see to it that the final group meeting either is guided by the faculty panel experts and not by student rapporteurs or will become merely a series of brief comparative reports and not a mass-meeting of pressure groups and lobby-lovers. This change would make for a novel experiment...