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Physicist Compton. The freshwater College of Wooster, Ohio, gave Professor Compton his early training in science; his father, Professor Elias Compton (philosophy) at Wooster, gave him the spirit; and his older (by five years less four days) brother, Professor Karl Taylor Compton (physics) at Princeton was his pacemaker. Arthur Holly took his doctor of philosophy degree at Princeton while Karl Taylor was assistant professor of physics there...
...pounds, carrying an additional load of 11,000 pounds. Imagine that bird losing necessary flying speed a few feet above the ground, trying to land in a marsh at 70 miles per hour. In such a bird, last week, were Lieut. Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, crack flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline to cross the Atlantic, their plane roared along the ground at Langley Field, near Hampton...
...brothers Van Sweringen is accented in countless columns dealing with rail mergers, gigantic, planned, accomplished. Newswriters refer to them as giants, geniuses, masterminds; tell and retell the story of their amazing career. O. P. Van Sweringen was born 47 years ago, his brother two years later, in Wooster, Ohio. Denied extensive education, they sold newspapers, saved, moved to Cleveland, worked as office boys, saved more. Borrowing, they purchased a wooded tract near Cleveland, pronounced it the future residence district. Borrowing more, they made their land accessible by rapid transit, bought more land. They still buy. Twelve square miles of residence...
...Frad, Professor and Mrs. E. B. Hill, Dean and Mrs. H. W. Holmes. Professor and Mrs. C. H. Langford, Professor and Mrs. Arthur Pope, Professor and Mrs. D. A. Prescott, Professor and Mrs. F. B. Sayre, Professor and Mrs. W. R. Spaulding and Professor and Mrs. W. B. Wooster...
...business meeting, other matters transacted were: re-election of officers: ? Dr. Charles F. Thwing (Western Reserve, emeritus), President; Dr. Francis W. Shepardson (Chicago), Vice President?and granting of charters to new chapters at Agnes Scott College, (Decatur, Ga.), University of South Carolina, College of Wooster (Wooster, Ohio), University of South Dakota, University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.), University of Kentucky, Occidental College (Los Angeles, Calif), University of Idaho...