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Divorced, Charles Cutler Dawes, son of Utilitarian Rufus Cutler Dawes who headed Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition; by Mrs. Emily McCormick Dawes; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...
...Harriet" was a big-hearted Negro who worked as a scrubwoman in Philadelphia's Homeopathic Hahnemann Medical College for years after the Civil War. Among her duties was cleaning up the room where young Dr. Rufus B. Weaver cut up cadavers to show medical students how the human body was constructed. "Harriet" doubtless heard Dr. Weaver declare many a time that the study of anatomy was the most interesting of all the medical sciences. He loved anatomy so profoundly that he would never practice therapeutics as long as he lived. He loved the subject so deeply that he examined...
...unique (see cut). Foreign savants stopped in Philadelphia to admire her. Generations of medical students learned neurology by tracing her ramifications. She made a special trip to Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Hahnemann Medical College made Dr. Weaver a professor, gave him a Rufus B. Weaver Anatomical Museum, gave "Harriet" an honored vault. In 1925 he retired from teaching. Last week when arteriosclerosis and his 95 years made him unable to resist longer, Death took Dr. Weaver...
SOUTH OF THE SUNSET-Claire W'arner Churchill-Rufus Rockwell Wilson ($3). Fictionized account of the adventures of Canoe Launcher, ambitious Shoshone Indian girl who served as guide to Lewis & Clark on their exploratory trip to the Great Northwest...
...Chapel Hill. A freshman had told an upperclassman and the upperclassman had told them and they were there to tell President Graham that the University's honor system had been widely, shockingly violated. Small, affable President Graham heard their story of organized cheating on examinations. Then to Rufus Adolphus ("Jack") Pool, president of the student body, and to the other solemn student leaders, he gave full authority to discover and punish the offenders. In the next ten days the students of North Carolina vindicated the honor system with a ruthlessness and gallantry which left Tarheels wondering whether the system...