Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baptist John Everett Clough (1836-1910) scorned religion until he was 22, then went to India and built up social and evangelistic organizations which lasted because their roots were native. Presbyterian Dr. James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911), slight and shrivelled, mastered Malay and Chinese, was for 33 years a surgeon, oculist, translator, healer and teacher throughout the Orient. Methodist Bishop James Mills Thoburn went to India, was joined by his sister Isabella (1840-1901) who founded Lucknow Women's College (India's first for females), held her first class of seven while a sturdy boy with a club...
...Richardson '64, prominent Boston surgeon who died October 20, according to his will filed in Probate Court, left his library with the exception of the medical books to Harvard University. He also left a bequest of $100,000 for the endowment of a professorship of obstetrics and $40,000 for the establishment of the "Jeffrey Richardson Fellowship," the income to be used for the support of a deserving medical student...
...Rolling Prairie, Ind. and subjected to the ideas of Edward Aloysius Rumely, its director. It was here that young Noguchi first decided to be an artist. In 1922 he apprenticed himself to Gutzon Borglum. Six months in the Borglum studio convinced him that he ought to be a surgeon. He took a number of premedical courses at Columbia University in 1922-23, there met and gained the friendship of his great namesake the bacteriologist...
...etiquet but French thrift blocked this scheme. Finally His Majesty decided to play surgeon, cut open the stomach of a concubine ''to see what was inside." Soon afterward French doctors formally certified that His Majesty was mad and in 1905 he was banished to Reunion Island off the coast of Madagascar. On Reunion today languishes famed Abd-el-Krim, onetime bandit-chieftain of Morocco, who displeased the French exceedingly by fighting them with vigor, castrating captured Legionnaires (TIME, Sept...
...toastmaster, the following were invited as speakers and listeners: Headmaster Lewis Perry of Exeter, national president of Alpha Delta Phi; President Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; Father Frederick Herbert Sill, headmaster of Kent School; President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago; Surgeon General Robert Patterson, U.S.A...