Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PROFESSOR - Stanley Johnson - Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). At Vanderbilt University, they well recall young Instructor Johnson. He has turned novelist since he left the English Faculty, but still lives in Nashville, Tenn. Reading his gentle arraignment of professorial hypocrisy, they will scowl, or be enthusiastic, self-consciously. The decline and fall of the soul of Dr. J. Tanksley Parkhurst, who took his Chaucer and his reputation seriously enough to become Dean, is staged at Thurston College, New England; but the winters are mild, the "you-alls" plentiful. Vanderbilt will take it personally. At other colleges, if the book is read, more...
...effect that the state of affairs is baseball's Götterdämmerung. Babe Ruth, home run magnate, "attended by the sympathy of the Nation" and press, lay in Manhattan, stricken with cold, run-down condition, influenza, indigestion and a bump on the head. In Nashville, Tenn., visited with far less solicitude, Tyrus Cobb, "the greatest player m baseball," took to his bed with influenza. A few days ago, shortly before the season opened, 12 other able players were retired from their lineups with injuries received in play or colds: Wright-stone, Philadelphia Phillies, broken finger; Maranville, Chicago...
Died. Charlotte Bell, 113, a slave belonging to Gen. Leonidas Polk until the end of the Civil War; in Columbia, Tenn...
...Paul D. Cravath, millionaire Manhattan lawyer, came a telegram. He peered in amazement through his pincenez at the extraordinary request set forth on the yellow slip. It came from the students of Fisk University (for Negroes), Nashville, Tenn. They besought Lawyer Cravath,† who is chairman of the Fisk Board of Trustees, to investigate "the situation...
...charge of the instruction in the courses in Personal Property and Trusts,- he quickly made his alert personality felt by students and faculty. Born in Charleston, S. C, in 1879, he was educated at the Charleston High School (1896), Charleston College (1896-97), the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. (B.A. 1900 and M.A. 1901), Johns Hopkins (1902) and (comparatively late in life-at the age of 34) at the Columbia Law School (LL.B. 1913). From 1903 to 1909, he was Professor of Greek at the University of the South. During the World War, he campaigned in France, first...