Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolution on Birth Control. Let the A. M. A., urged Dr. Brook, appoint a committee to spend one year pondering the effects of contraception on health, wealth, morals, happiness. Dozens of physicians leaped from their seats to shout pro & con on the long suppressed topic. Retiring President Edward Starr Judd cleverly put discussion over to the next...
...Medicine Today. Dr. Edward Starr Judd of Rochester, Minn., outgoing president of the A. M. A., and Dr. Edward Henry Gary of Dallas, Tex., incoming president, left a survey of "present-day trends of private practice in the U. S." to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the A. M. A.'s scientific Journal and popular Hygeia. Of 160,000 physicians in the U. S., Dr. Fishbein observed, 40,000 list themselves as specialists in the American Medical Directory. Among medical students the situation is now reversed. Three out of four medical school graduates go into one of the specialties...
Because they do not wish their alma mater turned into an advanced institution where everybody studies, studies, studies, most alumni of Stanford University were pleased last week. Acting President Robert Eckles Swain announced that the trustees had voted to abandon the plan which the late David Starr Jordan, Herbert Hoover and Ray Lyman Wilbur had favored: gradual elimination of the lower divisions of Stanford to make it a higher institution like Johns Hopkins...
Stanford University students may study fish at the Hopkins Marine Station which the late great Ichthyologist David Starr ( Jordan helped found in 1892. But they have no course in hooking, playing and catching fish. Last week it was announced that such a course would be instituted next month. It does not guarantee to inculcate Fair Play, Sportsmanship. Patience et al. as does a course in Hunting & Fishing announced at Rollins College last September (TIME, Sept. 28). Stanford's five-week Fish Course will be part of the physical education program, promises "results but not fish. Students will be taught...
Meanwhile in Manhattan a magistrate dismissed a charge of libel filed in their own behalf by eccentric Stanley Faithfull & wife, parents of the late Starr Faithfull (TIME, June 29), against Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson and Reporter Sidney Sutherland of the tabloid Dally News. But the court did find evidence that the memory of Starr Faithfull had been libeled, offered to hear testimony...