Word: wils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Holland Wilmer. To Dr. Wilmer the University dedicated the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute and to Dr. Welch the William H. Welch Medical Library. At the same time, the University inaugurated a Department of the History of Medicine and installed Dr. Welch as its head. Dr. Wilmer. William Holland Wil mer, 66, tall, blondish son of an Episcopal Bishop, is incontestably the greatest eye surgeon the U. S. has ever had.* Every U. S. President from Grover Cleveland on has needed eyeglasses, although they seldom were pictured wearing them. Dr. Wilmer has taken care of them all. Last week President Hoover...
...series of Navy disasters ? the Shenandoah, the S-51, the S-4 ? for which no Secretary could have been held directly ac countable, but during which Secretary Wilbur handled himself so clumsily that he became the butt of worse than blamed ridicule. Pressmen made sport of the Wil bur high-kicking, the Wilbur Sunday school class, the Wilbur bed-time stories. Repeatedly came disgusted demands for the Wilbur resignation...
...guests of the Philadelphia Harvard Club, the bandmen wil give four concerts on Saturday, May 19. Entraining for the meeting Friday evening, the Band will arrive in Philadelphia Saturday morning to give its first entertainment to the assembled graduates. In the afternoon, music will be furnished during the Harvard-Pennsylvania baseball game, and during the regatta to be held on the Schuylkill in the early evening, the musicians will again entertain...
...third week of May with no required work during the spring vacation. The competition this year will consist chiefly of routine work at the field and certain duties at the H. A. A. Candidates will not be asked to work more than three or four days a week. There wil be trips with the Freshman or University team to Andover, Exeter, Dartmouth, and Philadelphia...
...team's strength, inasmuch as, with the exception of Captain J. N. Barbee '28, the starting lineup consisted of second team material. Neither A. W. Slocum '28 nor H. T. Wenner '30, the two regular forwards, will be able to start because of injuries, although the former wil make the trip...