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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pompadoured George Simpson (Ohio State University), in last week's Ohio Relays at Columbus, broke by 1/10 sec. the world's record for the 100-yd. dash. The new record: 9 5/10...
...regard to be an improper activity, the work at Washington of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals in the Methodist Church, in its manifest efforts to dictate and control legislation. I disapprove of this. . . . Our traditional attitude has been one of rebellion against ecclesiastical interference with the state. Yet you are doing exactly what we have demanded shall not be done by the Catholics." Dr. Wilson answered with another open letter to Dr. Copeland, denied that the Copeland vote had been influenced, declared: "We have no lobby here, we have no lobbyist. . . . Nevertheless we have the right of free...
...Columbus, Ohio, seat of Ohio State University, there swarmed last week a swarm of some 2,000 chemists?the 77th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. To the public, chemistry is chemistry. To initiates there are dozens of kinds of chemistry. All kinds were represented and talked about at Columbus: Organic chemistry and physical chemistry; photochemistry, electrochemistry; medicinal, biological, agricultural and food, cellulose, boiler-room, petroleum chemistry...
...accurate description of the new Johns Hopkins plan might liken it to the Rhodes foundation for U. S. students, with Johns Hopkins substituted for Oxford University, chemistry specified as the special subject for study, and U. S. Industry in the position of founder. From each of the 48 states, one chemistry student will be chosen annually to go to Johns Hopkins, to study mathematics, physics, English and chemistry (inorganic, organic, physical, analytical) under Professor Neil Elbridge Gordon, recently appointed to the University's new Chair of Chemistry. Students may leave their universities for Johns Hopkins in their sophomore, junior...
...vase to be removed. "Who's the buyer?" cried a woman. "The British public has a right to know that. The vase has been in our museum a century!" The buyer was the Duke of Portland. He had set his minimum at $250,000. He allowed newspapers to state that it would be returned to the British Museum. Britishers were happy, yet marvelled at the absence of U. S. moneybags. Some surmised that U. S. financiers are not interested in damaged goods. In 1845 the Portland vase was shattered by one William Lloyd, a lunatic museum visitor, who was fined...