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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Reginald Fleming Johnson, 63, onetime British Commissioner of Weihaiwei, China, tutor and counselor to the deposed Boy Emperor Henry Pu Yi (now Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo); in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sir Reginald westernized his Manchu charge-watched Pu Yi cut off his pigtail, gave him the Christian name Henry, had his eyes treated by an American ophthalmologist despite the Dowager Empress' threat to give herself an overdose of opium if her son used spectacles...
Wagner's Kurwenal, a great, shaggy man, was Tristan's tutor and companion. Mathilde, Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven's Kurwenal was a short, smooth-haired dachshund, probably the most remarkable dog of the Western world. Last week's American Kennel Gazette gave the recently deceased dog Kurwenal a striking obituary...
...student wrote, "I could go for my tutor in a big way if he didn't have two children." A typical comment about exchanging college for marriage was, "I'd pass it up for a trip around the world, may be, but not for a twenty-yard jaunt and a life sentence...
Under the supervision of Kenneth T. Bainbridge, assistant professor of Physics, Kenneth V. Thimann, assistant professor of Plant Physiology, and John W. Mehl, instructor and tutor in Bio-chemical Sciences, the second of two joint conferences on Physics, Biology, and Biochemistry will be held at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon in the Senior Common Room of Eliot House...
...appointments for the current half year, include Richard G. Gettell, Amherst '33, instructor in Economics and tutor; Mikael J. Hvorslov, Technische Hochschule, Vienna '36, research fellow in Soil Mechanics; Gustav Burk '36, of Baltimore, assistant in Physics and Communication Engineering. For the first half of 1938-39, Lawrence C. S. Sickman '30, of Peiping, China, instructor in Fine Arts. For one year from next September 1 Milton C. Kloetzel, of Detroit, Michigan '37, instructor in Chemistry, and Evan C. Noonan, of New York City, instructor in Chemistry