Word: webster
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Within a year or two professors in the university began to leave. A few weeks ago Dr. Arthur Gordon Webster, head of the Physics Department and a man of high standing, killed himself after stating that he feared dismissal and that his work was not appreciated. Finally, on May 31, a number of past and present members of the faculty made public charges against Atwood. They included: Dr. Edwin G. Boring, now associate professor of psychology at Harvard; Dr. Frank N. Hankins, now professor of sociology at Smith; Dr. Kimball Young, assistant professor of psychology at Clark who leaves next...
...happy progress of athletics in the College answers the most serious of the charges, viz. that President Atwood has destroyed the spirit of co-operative scientific re-search which formerly existed at Clark. And as to that charge there seems to be no possible defense. Whether or not Dr. Webster was driven to kill himself because of the attitude of the university toward his work the fact remains that there is now an open rupture and that the old relationships are quite obviously destroyed. If President Atwood is accurately quoted by Dr. Boring, het once replied to a warning that...
Eugene V. Debs, according to his own account, is " a citizen of the world," because he is deprived of United States citizenship by being a paroled convict from the penitentiary at Atlanta. That did not prevent Daniel Webster Hoan, Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, from booming Debs for the Presidency of the United States...
...Monro, Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan Jr., Mrs. Henry K. Morrison, Mrs. Edward R. Nash, Mrs. George Owen, Mrs. Thomas N. Perkins, Mrs. Herbert L. Pratt, Mrs. Russell Robb, Mrs. Edgar Scott, Mrs. John E. Thayer, Mrs. William G. Thayer, Mrs. Eliot Wadsworth, Mrs. Ridley Watts, Mrs. Edwin S. Webster. Mrs. Clarence W. Whidden, Mrs. Edward A. Whitney, Mrs. John B. Wilson, Mrs. B. Loring Young
Died. Professor Arthur Gordon Webster, 60, eminent physicist at Clark University, suicide because of despondency over the lack of recognition, financial and public, which his work received, at Worcester, Mass...