Word: woodburn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...professor of philosophy and psychology, president of University of North Carolina, president of University of Illinois and finally chancellor of New York University, Harry Woodburn Chase has devoted his entire career to rescuing people from ignorance. Last week in Manhattan, Chancellor Chase uprose to dedicate a memorial tablet to his institution's most famed professor, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the telegraph. Explaining that early 19th Century scientists held long distance telegraphy to be a physical impossibility, the Chancellor declared...
Public Service by a newspaper was best rendered by the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, whose Associate Editor Arthur B. Waugh investigated the nominations by President Roosevelt of Nevada's Federal Judge Frank H. Norcross to the Circuit Court of Appeals, and of Lawyer William Woodburn to succeed Norcross. By linking both men with the George Wingfield political machine, the Bee thwarted the nominations...
Urging in the current "American Mercury" that college studies be applied more to the unpleasant realities, Harry Woodburn Chase suggests that they be "devoted to really learning something about the world," a world which Mr. Chase sees in terms of the problems of contemporary life. To him such subjects as economics and biology are the cream of the curriculum. But while man's income and digestion are of major importance, the tradition of higher education has been to concentrate upon celebration...
Other kudos of the fortnight: Case School of Applied Science (Cleveland) President Arthur Cutts Willard of University of Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . D.E. Columbia University (New York) Professor Emeritus Ernest William Brown of Yale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC. D. President James Bryant Conant of Harvard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC.D. Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase of New York University . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. President Harold Willis Dods of Princeton . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Surrogate James Aloysius Foley of New York Country . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Economist Calvin Bryce Hoover of Duke University . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. British Economist John Maynard Keynes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Russell Henry Stafford of Boston's Old South Church . . . . . . . . . . S.T.D Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) U.S. Commissioner...
...this appeared last July in School & Society, written by Professor Walter Woodburn Hyde of the University of Pennsylvania, who observed that "such a history would be comparatively worthless outside of Turkey." Professor Hyde acknowledged he was indebted to History Professor Edgar Jacob Fisher, dean of Robert College in Constantinople, for translation. Last week, Dean Fisher lost...