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There was John Fiske, who knew all the sciences and half-a-dozen languages before he entered Harvard where he added Hebrew, Sanskrit, Gothic, Icelandic, Rumanian, Dutch. "His methodical, orderly mind moved like a stone-crusher, reducing the boulders of thought to a flow of gravel that anyone could build a mental road with." Evolution was his religion. There was Francis Parkman, who had been over the Oregon Trail. Life in the West had destroyed his digestion and given him chronic insomnia. Arthritis crippled him. A nervous disorder "engulfed his mind." He had published The Conspiracy of Pontiac...
...barker, who smokes outsize cigars, wears checks, will run four concessions this season at the New York World's Fair: the Streets of Paris, Gay New Orleans, the Dancing Campus, the Old Time Opry House. Mike is a student of Elmer as some people are students of Sanskrit, art, horses. He knows how to tickle Elmer so Elmer will shower down...
...Uncle" is the undergraduate monicker for Haverford presidents. Present uncle is genial, cricket-playing William Wistar ("Uncle Billy") Comfort, highbrowed classicist and devout Quaker, who can, with equal facility, trace a word to its Sanskrit root and a piece of undergraduate mischief to its only begetter. Haverford graduate (1894) and son of a graduate, in his 23-year presidency he has doubled the college's teaching staff and endowment ($4,500,000), kept the student body and intercollegiate athletics* down. Says he: ". . . The country needs an exhibit of quality, rather than quantity in education...
Arthur E. Monroe '08, lecturer and tutor of Economics, was yesterday named by the University to replace Walter E. Clark '03. Wales Professor of Sanskrit, as acting Master of Kirkland House for the first half of the 1940-41 academic year...
Professor Clark, who has been Master of the House since 1935 and occupied a chair in Sanskrit since 1927, will be on sabbatical leave for the first six months. He will spend most of the time at La Jolla in Southern California where he intends to continue work...