Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Neilsen is able and popular but his students at N. Y. U. never behave like that. Last week's pupils were the 210 most intelligent inmates of New York's Sing Sing prison. Professor Neilsen's lecture on Business and the Weather was second in a series of 13 to be volunteered by the faculty of N. Y. U.'s School of Commerce, Accounts & Finance. First lecture last fortnight was on Money. Future subjects: Real Estate Outlook; Plans for Relief of Depression; How to Evaluate Industrial Securities; Corporation Financing...
Ever concerned for his wards' morale and rehabilitation, Sing Sing's Warden Lewis E. Lawes already had a full-fledged prison school supervised by a civil service employe, with educated inmates on the faculty. But looking over his Depression crop of prisoners, Warden Lawes decided some of them needed more advanced instruction. N. Y. U.'s Commerce Dean John Thomas Madden agreed...
Though the names of prisoners taking N. Y. U.'s course were kept secret. Sing Sing inmates who could have told the professors something about the practical side of their subjects included Frank H. Warder, onetime New York State Superintendent of Banks; Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, onetime president and executive vice president respectively of New York's Bank of United States...
...Sing Sing's lecture room, a long, bare hall set off by iron wickets from its library, was packed last week when fat, jolly Professor Neilsen walked in without a guard. He found his listeners most interested in aviation and weather forecasting. He had to translate "cyclonic and anticyclonic disturbances" into "fair and foul weather,' but went away with the opinion that 20 or 30 of his listeners had "very high college intelligence." Said he: "There was no difference in talking to them and in talking to a group of college freshmen...
...Wellesley chorus: March 10, at Northampton with the Smith Glee Club. At both the Wellesley and the Smith concerts the Bach Mass will be sung. March 18, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a rendition of the Bach Mass, in a Pension Fund Concert; March 20, the Glee Club will sing at a meeting of the Eliot Memorial Association in Sanders Theatre...