Word: sheffe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entered Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1906, studied electrical engineering, got mediocre grades. Those who knew the tall, handsome lad with the blue eyes and dark hair thought him a great fellow, believed he had a good future. At the end of the year he made a Sheff club, York Hall, and a fraternity, Chi Phi. But because he was shy and sickly, he took part in no sports, remained unknown to most of his classmates. In 1908 Lewis Baker Warren was too ill to return to Yale. In 1912 he died...
...conspicuous undergraduate except as a brilliant student. Even Professor Irving Fisher liked his original notions on business and economics. But Yaleman Garland's notions were far more original than Professor Fisher ever suspected. While still an undergraduate, Yaleman Garland heard about a signal device invented by a "Sheff" engineering professor named Henry A. Haugh. Now widely used, the device automatically changed the traffic lights at highway intersections when cars approached. Two years after graduation Garland organized Automatic Signal Corp., his old friend Professor Fisher putting up a "considerable sum" and becoming board chairman. For the patent the Garland company...
Died. Dr. Charles Norris, 67, famed, sardonic, goat-bearded, public-spirited Chief Medical Examiner of New York City; of coronary cirrhosis following acute dysentery; in Manhattan. Hoboken-born, educated at Yale "Sheff," Columbia, Kiel, Göttingen, Berlin and Vienna, he taught pathology, became director of the Bellevue Hospital laboratories, was appointed Chief Medical Examiner by Mayor Hylan in 1918. He battled for pure food laws, fought against quack doctors, Prohibition, insanitary restaurants, pronounced on many a suicide and murder that perplexed police, made his name and detective work known in medico-legal circles the world over. Underpaid...
Even if the colleges were not interested in the ability to learn as well as the ability to think, English alone would be no criterion. Many a Sheff student who gets high marks will tell us that literary ability is by no means a universal standard...
...Yale's unstable society, it is obvious that the Classes are too large to attain any considerable unity of spirit. In Yale College, the Classes average near 550. The Freshman Year approximates 850. In addition Ac and Sheff are unfortunately separated by the insurmountable barriers of one or two blocks of administration buildings. Consequently, no one knows a quarter of the men in his Class. There is little Class, spirit, little incentive to stay around week-ends and to organize scrub teams. It is apparent that the House Plan by breaking up these unwieldy units will go far towards recouping...