Word: wesleyan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When you call him Doctor Butler, you may have in mind any one of the degrees he has received from Columbia, Syracuse, Tulane, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Penn sylvania. Yale. Chicago, St. Andrews, Manchester, Cambridge, Williams, Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, Toronto, Wesleyan, Glasgow, State of New York, Oxford, Breslau, Strassburg, Nancy, Paris, Louvain, Prague, King's College (N. S.), Rome, Charles (Prague), Szeged (Hungary), Budapest, California.? His first doctorate he took at Columbia at the age of 24, with a dissertation on the History of Logical Doctrine. Making all knowledge his province, he instructed in education and philosophy, became...
...educational feature of the exhibition will be a catalogue giving the first comprehensive survey of the works of modern architects together with historical and critical comment. Among the contributors are Professor Henry Russell Hitchcock of Wesleyan University; Mr. Johnson, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. director of the Museum of Modern Art, and Lewis Mumford. Mr. Mumford is writing a survey of housing problems and their solution from an international standpoint...
...thinks, is not heavy enough to cause the Uranian disturbances upon which Lowell based his predictions. Radio & Sunspots. Several years ago Dr. Harlan True Stetson, then of Harvard, observed that radio reception is best when sunspots are least. Later he went to Delaware, Ohio as director of Ohio Wesleyan's Perkins Observatory, where he got the same correlations. The past year sunspots decreased about 50%, radio reception improved about 400%. Meteoric Static. When the earth swings through a swarm of meteors, radio waves go askew. The meteors ionize and rustle the Kennelly-Heaviside layer, radio's sounding board...
...week raised an echoing rumble from Shanghai. In Shanghai lives a demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a $3,000,000 tomb outside Nanking, venerated as the prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government. But like her Russian counterpart, Krupskaya, widow of the great Lenin, Mme Sun Yat-sen lives in retirement, generally plays...
...University squad defeated Bridgewater 4 to 2, tied Dartmouth 3 to 3, and has lost to Army 1 to 0, Springfield 5 to 1, and Pennsylvania 5 to 3. The Brown team defeated Tufts 5 to 0, tied Wesleyan and Yale 2 to 2, and lost to M. I. T. 2 to 1. HARVARD NEW BEDFORD Von Briesen, g. g., McArdic G. Clark, r.f.b. l.f.b., Desmaris Grossman, l.f.b. r.f.b., Godiel Pollard, r.h.b. l.h.b., Yosefek Ware, c.h.b. c.h.b., Beetham Burke, l.h.b. r.h.b., Hotte Draper, r.o. r.o., Ponte Fraley, r.i. l.i., Clarke Whitney, c.f. c.f., Dubiel 10 Clark, l.i. r.i., Cleveland Baxter...