Word: professor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rhodes Scholarships started in America in 1904," said Professor Adelotte," and have gone on without interruption until they were suspended because of the war, after the appointments in 1917. In those days appointments were made by committees of college Presidents, and all men were required to take entrance examinations in Greek, Latin, and mathematics for Oxford...
...this country who know most about Oxford the honor of selecting the Rhodes scholars. College presidents have still been retained as chairmen of these committees, as is instanced by the appointment of President Lowell as chairman of the Massachusetts committee. The secretary of this committee is Assistant Professor R. K. Hack of the University, who will give out all information concerning the scholarships to men living within the state...
Speaking of the recent vote at Oxford to abolish Greek as a compulsory part of the curriculum, Professor Aydelotte expressed himself as being in favor of continuing the study of the classics, although he does not believe that they should be made compulsory
...Harry Krepelka of Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, who was recently appointed to a Research Fellowship in Chemistry at the University, has already arrived and is engaged in the study of atomic weights under Professor Theodore W. Richards '86. This incident is of especial significance in bringing to light the fact of a foreign technical student coming to an American University to continue the specialized training which he formerly would have completed in Germany...
...Krepelka is himself a chemist of considerable ability, having received his training while assistant to Professor Brauner, director of the Chemical Laboratory of the University of Prague, and acknowledged the leading chemist of Czecho-Slovakia...