Word: profs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Wisconsin, Prof. Rasmus Björn Anderson, linguist, insurance man, rubber manufacturer, onetime (1885-9) U. S. Minister to Denmark, editor of Amerika (weekly), whose resolute chin is now overgrown with the white hairs of nearly 80 years, refused to accept the Cross of St. Olaf from King Haakon of Norway (his native land) just as he had refused in 1889 to accept the Cross of Danneborg from Haakon's father, King Christian, offered for his researches in Norwegian literature. Said Prof. Anderson: "Decorations and medals are humbug...
...opening of Columbia University* was marked by another attack upon legislative invasion of the people's liberties. Echoing sentiments against Prohibition expressed by his chief, President Butler, at last year's opening ceremonies, Prof. Young B. Smith of the Law College let fly: "There are many agitators in our midst who have been seized with a desire to compel all human beings to conform to a type, whether it be fundamentalist, teetotaler or 100% American. This will to standardize men they have attempted to justify on the grounds of efficiency, humanity and religion...
...fact that many U.S. parents long to give their sons "a year abroad before going into business," have encouraged the organization of a preparatory school at Oxford, of and for Americans only, by Professor Edgar C. Taylor of Washington University. Himself a former Longfellow Scholar at Oxford (from Bowdoin), Prof. Taylor will employ both American and British colleagues in a school organized along the combined lines of an Oxford hall and a U. S. preparatory school. The school opens "soon...
Candy for Runners. Sugar, of which the system becomes depleted during a race, may be restored by eating candy, and the brink of fatigue thus staved off for a time. ?Prof. Yandell Henderson, Yale...
Formaldehyde. "I have made sugar, pounds of it, synthetically from formaldehyde, the common disinfectant, through the action of ultraviolet rays."?Prof. E. C. C. Baly, Liverpool University...