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...American Association for the Advancement of Science), Dr. Sinnott presides over a school that grew out of a dank laboratory, 15 feet below the ground because the architect was fearful of "the black arts, explosions . . . and weird-like mysteries" of chemistry. The cellar lab was built for Professor Benjamin Silliman, the father of scientific teaching in the U.S.-whose name was frequently honored at Sheffield's centennial last week...
...Since Silliman's day, Sheffield has done a great deal of pioneering in science's black arts. "Sheff" taught the first U.S. courses in geology, paleontology, physiological chemistry, established the nation's first agricultural experiment station. It was the first U.S. school to provide a post-graduate course for the Ph.D. degree. Then crusty old Elias Loomis pioneered in devising the basis for modern weather maps and Bertram Boltwood discovered ionium. Sheffield's most famous teacher: Josiah Willard Gibbs, the top mathematical physicist of his day, who laid down the laws which form the basis...
Word came in a late flash from New Haven last night that Silliman College will send a gridiron contingent northward today to face the Mastodons of Eliot Hose, thereby increasing the intramural slate this afternoon to seven games...
Professor Northrop, Master of Yale's Silliman College, is a man who has something important to say. What he has to say embraces so many facts with such assurance, and is so radical and so constructive, that his book may well influence history, as he seriously proposes that it should...
Poison Press. But when really aroused, he scribbles counterdenunciations, buys big newspaper ads to blast his tormentors. Chief target of Crump's vituperative essays is a pudgy outlander, Silliman Evans, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean. One anti-Evans masterpiece contained the following observations...