Word: portland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cleveland ..........................................858 New York .................................................. 408 Detroit ....................................................363 Buffalo ....................................................357 San Francisco ..............................................277 Boston .....................................................200 Portland, Ore .......................................... ...180 St. Louis...
Physiologists and physicians made no mockery of a new announcement last week by one Joe H. Pos, civil engineer of Portland, Ore., graduate of the University of Zurich. He said he had constructed an "electric-radio" machine, that regulated blood pressure, whether high or low and he exhibited a box, like a radio receiving-set, of bulbs, coils, condensers, arms, doohickies, thingumbobs, gadgets, gimcracks. On top of the case are two brass arms, one of which constructor Pos points at the back of the patient's head, the other at his stomach-that is, at the medulla...
...chaired around Yale Field mid cheers and bunting as Oldest Living Graduate. At all events, in their three corners of the country, Mr. Depew's three living classmates held their aged peace. They were: Dr. Virgil M. Dow, retired medico of New Haven, Conn.; James L. Rackleff, lawyer of Portland, Me.; and Nathan L. Hazen, agriculturalist of Philo, Ill., who, though he discontinued his studies at the end of his first year of Yale, still remembers...
...Conn., manufacturer; Samuel H. Fisher, Manhattan lawyer; John R. Galt, Hawaiian banker; Edward J. Gavegan, New York Supreme Court Judge; Robert L. Luce, Manhattan lawyer; Edward L. Parsons, San Francisco bishop; Charles C. Paulding, Manhattan railroad lawyer and nephew of Mr. Depew; Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania Governor; Robert Treat Platt, Portland (Ore.) lawyer; James Gamble Rogers, Manhattan architect; Charles H. Sherrill, Manhattan lawyer; George W. Woodruff, Pennsylvania Attorney General...
That student conference at Wesleyan University, culminating in proposals for the reform of football, recalls an issue which has been discussed for a full decade. Do athletics, especially intercollegiate athletics, promote or hinder the cause of education? President W. T. Foster of the Reed College at Portland, Oregon, has been one of the most outspoken in condemnation of what he calls "exaggerated emphasis" on college sports. He asks our attention to "the weaklings among the undergraduates who spend their hours in cheering a football hero and their money in betting on him, while the man of highest achievement in scholarship...