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...upon the new project in the immediate future. The new Faculty Club will probably be completed and ready for occupancy by September of 1930 if present indications may be taken at face value, and in its completed form will provide a meeting place and all the conveniences of a savant organization for approximately 1000 members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Votes $200,000 for Faculty Club Accommodations | 6/15/1929 | See Source »

...Japanese Savant to Come Here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY GRANTS OF FELLOWSHIPS MADE | 5/7/1929 | See Source »

...Wesleyan University, for safekeeping, photographing and occasional exhibiting, arrived last week eight pages of cramped and cryptic handwriting. The bushywooled savant whose pen had scratched, squiggled, crossed out and corrected was no less a personage than Germany's Albert Einstein. These pages were the original manuscript of his Zur Ein-heitlichen Feld-Theorie (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wesleyan's Treasure | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Budge, whose honors and attributes take up more than a full column and a half in the British Who's Who, is at present preparing a brief, definitive me morial biography of Cat Mike, soon to appear in limited edition from a London publishing house. Other books by Savant Sir Ernest Budge include: The Coptic History of Elijah the Tishbite; The Laughable Stories of Bar-Hebraeus ; An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary; The Book of the Dead; The Book of the Bee; and The Mummy (Enlarged Edition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cat Mike | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...erroneous U. S. impression that Soviet housewives have no servants was corrected, last week, by earnest, diligent Commissar of Health Nikolai A. Semashko in somewhat startling fashion. With the total candor of an authentic savant, Comrade Semashko stated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Plenty of Servants | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

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