Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great numbers of medicos, some wearing the conventional air of sympathetic abstraction and, on their chins, the familiar bedside Vandyke, but a surprising number of them clean-shaven, brisk, straightforward men of business, convened, last week, in Chicago, at the annual Congress on Medical Education. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Stanford University, presided; Dr. Henry M. Tory, President of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, stood up to address the brisk medicos. He told about the struggles to get a good medical school started in Canada. Others spoke on such topics as the progress of medical education...
...Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Leland Stanford University and one-time (1923-24) President of the American Medical Association, came to Manhattan from Washington, D. C, where he had been visiting his brother.- Reporters asked him questions. Said...
Scarcely satisfied, the curious turned to see what answer the fingers of Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee had written on the walls. They saw a picture which, so it seemed to them, could be nothing but a pathologist's graph of a difficult neurosis (The Ray-Kandinsky) ; a lithograph of the wedding of debauched parallels (The Cloud- Feininger) ; a diagram of the unfortunate encounter of a cloud of locusts and a windmill (Abstraction-Jawlensky) ; the furious attempt of a carburetor to become a French horn (Mathematic Vision-Klee). Some of the curious, appalled, then took themselves off, hand to head...
Director Edward W. Forbes '95 of the Fogg Art Museum, has received a grant to be used to study the chemistry of paints and the preservation of pictures, as well as for the investigation of the possible use of the x-ray for the detection of picture forgeries...
...consequently somewhat surprising to read the expressed opinion of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Leland Stanford, if correctly quoted in the daily prints, to the effect that Western universities are superior to Eastern universities, because Eastern universities "isolate themselves with one type of mentality...