Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's Department of Anthropology has already entered into an agreement with the Pathe News people to make somewhat dead subjects more significant, more graphic to the amateur scientist. But compared to the latest educational experiment of the History Department, the cinema idea must be classed as sterile in promoting interest and enthusiasm. Making dead bones live on the screen is tame compared to the thrills to be had in seeing members of the History Department, in costume, reenacting the glorious deeds of the past. Consider, for instance, the possibilities of staging the Defenestration of Prague from Memorial Hall...
...Burnham] to do, although there is some doubt that it was best from a social standpoint." The public, shocked at the thought of the unknown-unmarried-young-man-father, debated whether Vera would some day be made unhappy by whispering schoolfellows and whether she would become actress, author, businesswomen, scientist or recluse...
Said Dr. Henry Pratt Fairchild, social scientist, quoting the conclusions of the World Population Conference at Geneva last summer: "Migration alone is not a remedy for population difficulties, or the solution of overpopulation of a nation, unless it is coupled with knowledge and practice of birth control...
...giving the sum to the School of Hygiene & Public Health of Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Garvan had insisted that the fund be called "The John J. Abel Fund for Research on the Common Cold." To that insistence he added: "In asking that the name of your great scientist be connected with this research I am mindful not only of his pre-eminent position and services in science, but more particularly of his outstanding reputation as the man who, perhaps more than any other living scientist today, exemplifies the beneficial application of the science of chemistry to medical problems, which...
...Interested primarily in the aesthetic side of life," Scientist Albert Abraham Michelson, of the University of Chicago, last week held an exhibition of his paintings in Chicago. With his own hands Dr. Michelson adjusted against the wall 18 watercolors, twelve portraits in pen and ink. Said he, "Of all the oil portraits I made, I have destroyed every canvas...