Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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German Ambassador Herr Doktor Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron, scholar student directing a heavy intellect upon the intricacies of musty international politics. A tall, spare man, stiff and unbending in manner, he could see no sense in reducing the rights of a diplomat...
...Intrepid Newsman Dolan's life holds many adventures. Recently, with Grace Robinson, sister newsgatherer of the Daily News, he was overtaken by Cambridge constables after breaking into the room of the late Walter Treadwell Huntington, Harvard student found shot to death in a field in Windsor, Conn. Sentenced to three months in the House of Correction by a lower court, they appealed to the Superior Court, paid $20 each for court expenses and were freed...
What sunrise is like on the moon can now be demonstrated as well as described. Edward G. F. Arnott, student at Princeton's Graduate School, got his engineer-father to rig an ordinary amateur cinema camera at the small end of Princeton's 23-inch telescope. They slowed down the camera's action 100 times, since a lunar day passes 9/1000 as fast as an earthly one, and took a picture of how dawn comes to Copernicus, one of the moon's biggest pits. Because the moon has no atmosphere, there is little or no crepuscular...
Last week Dean Meeks heard that Burton Kenneth Johnson, 22, son of a Chicago dentist, had won the 1929 Prix de Rome in Architecture-third to be given to a Yale student in the past five years. True, Architect Johnson first went to Yale last fall, after four years architectural study at the University of Illinois, where he won honorable mention in last year's Prix Competition. But the honor of tuning him to prize-winning pitch was Yale...
Much credit for Yale's triumphs must go to Dean Meeks, who has built up the faculty and student personnel of his school. He is 50, a roly-poly little man with a swarthy moon-face, merry squinting eyes, black mustache and knobby goatee-a small Sultan in mufti. A native of Mount Vernon. N. Y., he is an alumnus of Yale, studied architecture at Columbia University and in Paris. He worked as a draughtsman with the famed firm of Carrere & Hastings. In 1914 he began practicing for himself, still executes an occasional design. He is a bachelor...