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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before Dr. William Holland Wilmer became professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University, the University's President Frank Johnson Goodnow and Professor William Henry Welch both wrote: "It is generally conceded that Dr. Vilmer is the outstanding ophthalmologist in this country. . . . The faculty of John? Hopkins University considers that the opportunity of Dr. Wilmer becoming professor of ophthalmology in this institution constitutes an opportunity which is unlikely to be offered again within a genera-tion." At the dedication of the Wilmer Institute, Dr. Ernest Fuchs of Vienna (TIME. Nov. 25), under whom Dr. Wilmer studied 40 years...
...meowing- last week a National Pet show filled Manhattan's ever sightful and soundful Madi- son Square Garden. There were 5,000 animals of all sizes, shapes, means of locomotion. There was a sombre Mongolian dromedary, an Indian baby elephant, ocelot (beast), a toucan (bird), a guppie (fish). Professor George Yoeger of Brooklyn took Trixie, his dancing, boxing dog. From New Jersey went Buster, 18-month-old chimpanzee who drinks Coca-Cola, hugs his mistress. Mme. Frieda Hempel. famed prima donna, wandered among the exhibits, her maid following with Master Toby, the Hempel pomeranian who has crossed the Atlantic...
...made headquarters for the Royal Canadian College of Physicians & Surgeons. Generally acclaimed as the greatest of Canadian doctors was the late William Osier (1849-1919), who taught at McGill. By grading of the Nobel prize the living Canadians who have contributed most to medicine are Frederick Grant Banting, 38, Professor of Medical Research at the Uni-versity of Toronto, and his preceptor, John James Rickard Macleod, 53, Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto until 1928. Since then Dr. Macleod has returned to his native Scotland to be Regius Professor of Physiology at the University at Aberdeen. They developed...
...grub? ... Er ... you'll excuse me. this is Mrs, Lindbergh-it's for her." Later the Lindberghs and hosts explored cliff-dwelling ruins to which Lindbergh led the way, having discovered from, the air a hitherto unknown path. Last weekend Col. Lindbergh paid a visit to Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard of Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) to learn more about high altitude rocket experiments (TIME. July 29). Said Informaniac Walter Winchell in the New York Mirror: "Of course it will be vigorously denied, but the Col. Chas. A. Lindberghs (Anne Morrow) anticipate a blessed event." General John Joseph Pershing...
...Professor R. E. Rogers '09, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has consented to read selections from the speeches of Secretary Mellon and President Hoover which were made in relation to this film. Tickets for the performance may be secured from Professor William Emerson, at 491 Boylston Street, by application in person or by letter...