Word: profs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice in a footnote on page 60 of your issue of Nov. 12 an interesting remark of Wm. Lyon Phelps' about Father Riggs. In view of Prof. Phelps' observation that "he has done both" (i.e., written musical comedy and joined the Catholic clergy), you will be interested to know that Father Riggs' two most recent literary ventures are a highly theological translation from the French just published by Macmillan-and a translation of Rostand's "The Last Night of Don Juan." The translation of Rostand, as yet unpublished, is as beautiful, subtle and polished...
...week "was rescued by the relief expedition sent into the tundra wilderness of Siberia to seek him. No marvel of jasper or onyx, this; it is a large rock with a fused crust, composed of iron and silicates. It is the largest meteorite ever found on the earth, and Prof. Kulik has been looking at it ever since last summer...
Presiding at a debate was Prof. David Saville Muzzey, author of a U. S. history deemed pro-British and pernicious by "Big Bill" Thompson, and declared by him unfit for Chicago schools. Further his mayoral anglophobia would have been irritated by the fact that three of the debaters were British students...
Died. Professor William A. Speck, 64, famed Goethe scholar, curator of classical German literature in the Yale University library; after a long illness; in New Haven. With his own funds and those of others, Prof. Speck gathered together the finest Goethe collection outside Germany, the finest Faustiana in the world...
Within this region, on the Rock River estate of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican nominee for Illinois Congress-man-at-large, her Holstein herd graze. Prof. George W. Cavanaugh of Cornell University secured permission to subject those Rock River cows to an experimental diet. Since July11 they have become epicures among cows, familiar with rare seasoning. Their ordinary feed has been powdered with seaweed rich in iodine...