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...family into which Arthur Compton was born 43 years ago in Wooster, Ohio, is something for students of heredity and environment to cluck over. The father is Elias Compton, Ph.D., D.D., Presbyterian clergyman, longtime professor of philosophy and psychology at the College of Wooster. The mother is Otelia Catherine Augspurger Compton, sprig of a German Mennonite family, who three years ago got an LL.D. for being "wife and mother of the Comptons." The parents did not try to choose careers for their four children but encouraged their natural bents. ''We used the Bible," said Father Elias, "and common...
...thousand brain tumors and one of the commonest, most rapidly growing and most immediately fatal types-the spongioblastoma-comprises one-third of his cases. Surgical removal is sometimes effective but there is desperate need of early diagnosis. Last week Dr. Charles Albert Elsberg of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Centre reported a diagnostic technique for brain tumor which he deemed more sensitive than any other currently employed. Dr. Elsberg's way is to test the patient's sense of smell...
...derive much enjoyment from Tertius van Dyke's pious biography of his father, with its exact and well-documented accounts of Henry van Dyke's fishing trips, its exhaustive records of his ineffectual activities in politics, its methodical report of his achievements as pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York, its detailed study of the honors, awards and testimonials bestowed upon him by eminent figures in all walks of life. But despite Tertius van Dyke's naive acceptance of contemporary estimates of his father's greatness, the biography throws a vivid light...
Henry van Dyke was born in 1852 in Germantown, Pa., son of an old, conservative, well-to-do Dutch family. His father became pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn Heights, was notorious for his Southern sympathies before the Civil War. Once during that War a mob surrounded the van Dyke home, demanded that the pastor display the U. S. flag as proof of his loyalty, was dispersed by elders of the church. Mentioning such conflicts with obvious distaste, Tertius van Dyke concentrates on Henry van Dyke's idyllic boyhood, his carefree college years in Princeton, his travels...
...others: Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell University-New York Hospital, New York University-Bellevue Hospital...