Word: whitehead
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Lawyer Clarence Darrow, professional agnostic, has appeared in some 30 forums on religion throughout the U. S. this year, all of them under the management of his old friend George G. Whitehead of Columbus, Ohio, a former lyceum promoter. Lawyer Darrow's standard theses are Tolerance, Good Will, Better Understanding. Dr. Bruce S. Wright, Christian Century's Buffalo correspondent, was one of Lawyer Darrow's opponents in Buffalo and Erie, Pa. In last fortnight's Christian Century he described the workings of the Darrow forums as follows: Promoter Whitehead, himself a good Methodist. goes...
...best classical scholar of my year had specialized in mathematics at school until he was thirteen or fourteen. Of the four men in my class at Queen's who distinguished themselves in classics at the end of their second year, two went over to European history. Professor A. N. Whitehead, now of Harvard, did classics at school, and has since distinguished himself principally in mathematics and philosophy. It is erroneous to think of this scholarship system as fixing the boy's line of development. In a way it makes change more likely by insisting that the boy get a thorough...
Besides the three technical sessions that will be held, Dr. J.B. Whitehead of Johns Hopkins University, chairman of the committee will make a report, and K.T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give an address on "The Distribution of Electricity in Molecules" after the dinner tonight at the Faculty Club...
...served at the Harvard Faculty Club on Quincy Street. That morning a technical session will be held by the subcommittee on chemistry, at 10.30 o'clock, with Mr. F.M. Clark of the General Electric Company presiding. A general session at 11.30 a.m. will have as its chairman Dr. J.B. Whitehead, of the John Hopkins University who is Chairman of the Committee on Electrical Insulation...
...speakers could have held the attention of such an audience for an hour on such a discourse," Professor Whitehead remarked in an expression of appreciation. "The speaker is a thinker without a living peer...