Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Harrison Shull, professor of botany and genetics at Princeton University, gave hybrid corn to the world free of charge. But the U. S. Department of Agriculture pointed out last week-just for fun-that if old Dr. Shull had received a royalty of only 1? an acre for the 25,000,000 U. S. acres planted to hybrid corn in 1939, he would have taken in $250,000-a tidy income for a scientist. In 1939 Iowa planted 77% of her total corn acreage to hybrid corn, Indiana planted 60%, Illinois and Ohio 57% each...
...having received no royalties so long as he is recognized as the Santa Claus of hybrid corn. But he remarked last week that if he had received the merest fraction of 1? an acre, he would have been able to set up an independent department of botany at Princeton. It rather irks him that, the way things are, botany is corralled in Princeton's department of biology...
...note: According to a recent survey, the reproductive rate of Princeton men is declining...
...hockey team, which finished sixth in the 3-1 League and third in the Quadrangular League in 1939, has at least two outstanding Sophomores. The first is Bill MacCoy, who never played before he arrived at Princeton but who is going to be a great player before he is through, in the opinion of his coach, Dick Vaughan. The other is Dan Stuckey, from Exeter, former Freshman captain. MacCopy is a defense man and Stuckey is a center...
...addition to them, Princeton has a forward line which has played together for three years in Bob Hordley, Horatio Turner and Ralph Wyer. The first two of these currently are on the injured list but are expected to return in time for the start of the league campaign next month. Two veterans are available for the defense posts, Dick Purnell, captain, and Ben Fuller, while John Coleman and Lowrey Kammer are veteran goalies. Other men being counted on are Al Fuller, Senior wing; Al Lane, brother of Princeton's former football captain, and Dick Faxon, Sophomore center...