Word: prall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Herberger looked something like deadwood himself. The board got him to kick himself upstairs to chairman. In as president went 54-year-old Bert Prall, Butler's retail boss. Bespectacled, garden-loving Bert Prall was a tougher man than he looked. Before resigning as a Montgomery Ward vice president in 1946, he had stood up for 15 years under Sewell Avery-and had long been manager of hard lines. As boss of money-losing Butler Bros., Prall might find it was still hard lines...
Horace G. Prall...
Phil. 6 was Prall's famous course, and of course leaves a gap. However, Elsenberg will probably take over, and with Prall's outline, and his own competence, should do a sound...
...Philosophy department lost Prall, the Mathematics department lost Graustein and Coolidge. Stone or Walsh may take over. Walsh's lectures are extraordinarily good, and he is also well worth knowing, and very interested in his students. Both the Birkoffs, though fine mathematicians, are bad teachers, with carelesely organized lectures, and exasperating blackboard technique. As to Stone, he is well liked in his advanced course...
That was David W. Prall. Though one of the most brilliant of modern philosophers, he was first of all, to those who knew him, a wise, friendly man. Constantly his associates urged him to save his meager strength, but still he spent it profusely, in talking long into the evening with his tutees and fellow House members. More than most tutors, he knew his students. As President of the Teachers' Union, he always stood for close cooperation between students and those who worked most effectively to help the underprivileged. As a teacher, he added great lustre to this University...