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Though now a specialist in English history, Owen started late in his field. As an undergraduate at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, he had "delusions of being a scientist," took geology under Kirtley Mather, and changed his mind abruptly after a near-disastrous chemistry course. Graduating in 1920, Owen had earned a Ph.B., which he describes as a "bastard degree for philosophers who lack a knowledge of Greek." From Denison he went to Yale, received a doctorate and became an instructor, but it was ten years before he began to teach English History. "I sort of backed into it," he says...
...foreign professor. So far, 59 colleges have written in to say they would welcome the idea. Meanwhile, the institute's list remains a roster of tragedy: a onetime embassy charge d'affaires who now works as a clerk in a garment district storehouse, a political scientist whose only U.S. job has been as a cashier in a tenth-rate restaurant, a banker who is now a janitor, and two former ambassadors, one of whom scrapes along as an assistant librarian. The other: "unemployed...
Prophets of agricultural doom are fond of saying that U.S. farms are rapidly losing their fertility and will some day turn into sterile wastelands. This is not happening in one long-cultivated U.S. region. C.L.W. Swanson. chief soil scientist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, says that the farmland of New England, which was not naturally fertile when the Pilgrims landed, has been made fertile by proper farming methods, and is growing more productive all the time...
...Robert Hooke, a 17th century British scientist-of-all-trades, first announced the formula that stress set up within an elastic body is proportional to the strain to which the body is subjected by an applied load. He also partially anticipated Newton's law of gravity, published original discoveries about fossils and the rotation of the planet Jupiter, invented the double barometer and the universal joint, and worked out a practical system of semaphore telegraphy...
Committee members pledged joint financial aid for research into "all phases of tobacco use and health." Heading the research will be "a scientist of unimpeachable integrity and national repute" (not yet named). "Scientists disinterested in the cigarette industry . . . from medicine, science and education will be invited to serve" on an advisory board...