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...recognition of those individuals who made the achievement possible. Science has become popularized, but the tireless scientist receives meagre memorial. The journalistic Paul de Kruif has rescued many of these names from oblivion in his "Microbe Hunters" and later his "Hunger Fighter", published in 1928. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley has told his own story, and has presented a picture, human and authoritative, which ranges from the log cabins of pioneer Indiana, to Harvard College in the seventies, German student life under the old regime, and the White House from the time of Harrison to Taft...
...Among them, the season's first batch of honorary degrees. Recipients: Frederick Hanley Scares, assistant director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Mt. Wilson Observatory, California alumnus (1895); a classmate, famed Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett (Manhattan's Bush Terminal Office Building, George Washington Masonic Memorial at Alexandria, Va.); Professor Florian Cajori, California mathematician...
...Kokomo, Ind., Mrs. V. S. Wiley found a dime copy of her $150 diamond ring in a dime store, took hers off to verify the similitude, found it so close, that unwittingly she threw her own ring into the bauble tray. It lay there four days, scorned by 5-&-10 shoppers...
...follows: for 1930-31--A. E. Currier 3G, G. L. Day 4G, Edward Dumbauld gr.L,. P. S. Harris 2G, W. J. Huchthausen 2S.A., W. K. Jordan 2G, R. L. Kilgour Instr., J. C. McGalliard 2G, D. W. MacKinnon 4G, E. S. Robinson 3G, B. T. Silverstein 4G, W. L. Wiley 4G; for the summer of 1930--J. B. Crane Instr.; D. M. Erb 3G; C. E. Keeler research fellow; J. P. Wernette...
...Yonkers, N. Y., Edward Wiley Jr. haled his father into court, charged him with talking and singing too much...