Word: winternitz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Advisers of the Childs Fund are to be: Yale's Medicine Dean Stanhope Bayne-Jones, a bacteriologist and Rockefeller Foundation protege; his predecessor as dean, Pathologist Milton Charles Winternitz, who at the American Medical convention announced new discoveries about the hardening of arteries; Rudolph John Anderson, biochemist; Dr. Ross Granville Harrison, biologist who began the artificial cultivation of living tissues, for which the Rockefeller Institute's Alexis Carrel is more famed; Rockefeller Institute's Francis Peyton Rous. whose discovery of a type of cancer (Rous's sarcoma) which can be transplanted from one chicken to another...
When President Angell went to Yale, the institution was a university largely by courtesy. The Medical School was almost literally a shack. Pathologist Milton Charles ("Nitzy") Winternitz became Dean of the Medical School in 1920. Encouraged by the new President, financed by Rockefeller and University money, he boosted the school in a decade to one of the nation's finest...
Launched by Dean Winternitz in 1923 was the graduate School of Nursing, first and most famed...
...Yale's most celebrated pre-War graduates was aware of the Law School only because one of its students was on his water polo team. Under Deans Thomas Walter Swan (1916-27) and Robert Maynard Hutchins (1927-30), the Yale Law School enjoyed its Angellic renaissance. Then Milton Winternitz and Robert Hutchins collaborated on the Institute of Human Relations, dedicated ambitiously to the general study of human behavior, a unique co-operative research centre that unites the best of Yale's postgraduate brains...
Eight other schools change deans this autumn. At Yale, intramural policies forced out Dr. Milton Charles Winternitz, 50, brought in Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, 47. Wisconsin's new dean, Dr. William Shainline ("Dr. Billy") Middleton, 45, sharpens students' wits by passing a brown derby from dullard to dullard throughout the term, finally presents it to his class as a memorial to their intelligence...