Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dane Hall, which was burned during the late war. Langdell Hall was built only when the Law School had assumed an important place in the University. The University Museum is a great jumble and bulk of buildings, yet their very immensity inspires one to recall Agassiz, that great scientist who gave up science for a period to get enough money to establish a museum...
...MYSTERY IN ASIA?Ferdinand Ossendowski ? Dutton ($3.00). The Polish author-scientist-sportsman who has already interested the American people in his Beasts, Men, and Gods here narrates some of his earlier adventures on the same continent. Employed by the Tsar's government in investigating salt lakes, coal mines, gold deposits, Dr. Ossendowski was obliged to make long trips into the Kalunda and Bateni steppes, into the Altai Mountains, to the convict island of Sakhalin, into the extraordinary Ussurian country where the tropical tiger roams in the same forest as the reindeer and the northern goose and the Indian flamingo...
...educational convention in San Francisco last year.] The prize is $25,000. Its giver is Raphael Herman†, of Detroit. Members of the jury of award include: Banker Robinson of Los Angeles, President Jones of the N. E. A., Governor Baxter of Maine, President MacCracken of Vassar, Scientist Milliken of California...
Died. Jacques Loeb, 65, famed scientist; in Bermuda...
...President of the University for forty years--from 1869 to 1909; he was born in Boston in 1884, and graduated from Harvard in 1853. His election as President at the age of 35 was considered remarkable, both because of his youth and because he was a layman and scientist...