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Besides the things physical of the uni versity he must become quickly conversant with the facts which represent Illinois in the realm of scholarship and science. When he, with his wife and daughter, takes up residence in the president's house on Urbana's Nevada street next autumn, he will meet Professor Samuel Wilson Parr of the Chemistry department. It is to Professor Parr that Illinois chemists turn for solace and inspiration in chemical experimentation. More important than his own work in the chemistry of coal, is the part Professor Parr played in encouraging the sort of research which ultimately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: U. of Illinois | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...College of Physicians & Surgeons. Generally acclaimed as the greatest of Canadian doctors was the late William Osier (1849-1919), who taught at McGill. By grading of the Nobel prize the living Canadians who have contributed most to medicine are Frederick Grant Banting, 38, Professor of Medical Research at the Uni-versity of Toronto, and his preceptor, John James Rickard Macleod, 53, Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto until 1928. Since then Dr. Macleod has returned to his native Scotland to be Regius Professor of Physiology at the University at Aberdeen. They developed insulin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Royal Canadian College | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...conducts in Princeton a school for young children, another school for "cramming" college entrance candi dates, and a third for "cramming" under graduates. So aware of Hun aid was one Princetonian, according to legend, that, upon graduating, he asked Crammer Hun to sign his name under those of the Uni versity Trustees and President. Legend adds Crammer Hun signed. This week another Hun enterprise was inaugurated: a country day school for students from Trenton, N. J., and vicinity. . . . Time-honored though the custom be, this year, for the first time, Princeton public school children will get no holiday when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prelude to Learning | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Workers' Athletic field at Mexico City. The Sewanee team, which plays Tulane in New Orleans on Nov. 16, will proceed to Mexico City by rail and plane. The first U. S. v. Mexico game is scheduled for Oct. 5, between Louisiana College and the Uni versity of Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cagle & Co. | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Your report on the row at Des Moines Uni-versity contained more than one error. The shower you mentioned was limited to stones and eggs, but what eggs! Many of them hatched as they sailed through business office windows at Dr. T. T. Shields, University board president, and Miss Edith Rebman, board secretary. (Not treasurer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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