Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's mail brought to Alumnus Hanfstaengl his Alma Mater's reply, written by young Scientist-President James Bryant Conant as follows...
...such a reputation that the Sultan made him his astronomer. In his crude observatory Omar revamped the calendar, indulged in heretical speculations about the nature of the universe, tossed off unconsidered little rubai (quatrains) when he felt off his feed. A tragic love affair turned him from an ambitious scientist into a world-weary philosopher. Riches and power were heaped on him by the Sultan, who took his soothsaying advice as gospel, but Omar was not much upset when his royal patron died and took his favor with him. Immediately excommunicated for heresy by the doctors of Islam, Omar gave...
There are definitely two kinds of research. The worker may, as in physical sciences, experiment with new combinations of elements, or, as in literature, delve into the lives and works of men who have contributed classics to that field of intellectual activity. As the physical scientist must be familiar with the old combinations before he can experiment with new ones, so the neophyte writer must have some acquaintance with what has been written in times past before engaging successfully in a work of originality. The English department very adequately provides opportunity for this detailed and scholarly acquaintanceship with the English...
Last week one of Soviet Russia's unpredictable trains clacked out of Moscow, headed southeast for Michurinsk, 300 miles away. On board was a crowd of scientists and officials. When the train discharged its passengers safely in the little town, other scientists converging from other parts of U. S. S. R. swelled the throng to nearly 600. All were there to pay high honor to the wrinkled old man for whom the town once called Koslov was renamed, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, "the Burbank of Russia." With pomp and ceremony the title of Honored Scientist of the Republic was conferred...
...pretty, yellow-haired young woman named Gloria Hollister, who recorded the Beebe babblings in her fleet shorthand. Equipped with the conventional headphones and mouthpiece of a switchboard girl but dressed like a champion tennist, Miss Hollister resembled a cinemactress playing a part more than the earnest young scientist...