Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...VIRGIL MALCHER Chicago...
...climbing toward top rank among U. S. colleges. And last week the new Iowa got a new head. To succeed Eugene A. Gilmore, who retired last July at 69, the State Board of Education elected as the University's president a shy, handsome Chicago corporation lawyer named Virgil Melvin Hancher...
...Virgil Hancher was a dark-horse candidate, but no stranger to lowans. Born on an Iowa farm, he got his A.B. and law degree at the State University, where he was a high scholarship man and president of his class, two years ago was president of the Iowa Alumni Association. He also went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, got an M.A. there. No educator, he gave up a better-paid law practice to take the $12,-ooo presidency, was chosen to give Iowa an efficient business administration...
...concrete terms this means that classics professors will lecture on "Virgil and the Present World Crisis," chemists and physicists on "Science and the War," and so on; even the most remote of the ivory-tower dwellers will indulge in a daily, dish of "realism." Insofar as educators give up their customary profound preoccupation with the meaningless and esoteric, such a change can only be accounted a gain. The quest for knowledge, as Robert S. Lynd asserted in "Knowledge for What?", ought to be motivated by some social need, which stimulates an action toward its solution, and in turn encourages...
...Virgil Kinney Hancock, noted Seattle obstetrician, began to try irradiation on hopeless streptococcic and staphylococcic bloodstream infections, with great success. Several years later, he was followed by Drs. Elmer William Rebbeck of Pittsburgh and Henry Alfred Barrett of Manhattan. Last year, after they told him of several thousand successful cases, Dr. George Miley of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital began to put in full time on irradiation, working up case histories, preparing careful fever charts, blood-count tables...