Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Education Society's desire for a college somewhere; 3) John Davison Rockefeller's decision to found a college either in New York or Chicago. Mr. Rockefeller (always referred to since as "The Founder") gave $600,000. Marshall Field gave the site, worth $125,000 on the Midway where the World's Fair of 1893 was to be held. The character of the institution was contributed by William Rainey Harper, the 35-year-old Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature at Yale whom the 'founders asked to be their first president. Youngman Harper said: "I am not interested in starting a college...
...children born on earth each day,* at least 200 who live will be blind. The League of Red Cross Societies figures 2,390,000 blind in the world, 105,000 of them in the U. S. China, with the greatest population, has the most blind. Dr. Harvey James Howard, who spent 14 years in China before he became director of the McMillan Hospital of St. Louis and of the department of ophthalmology in Washington University Medical School, once wrote: "If a procession of the totally blind people in China should pass in review in single file before the President...
Preventive Work. The U. S. society and the Red Cross are trying to reduce the world's incidence of blindness by preventive work-by educating mothers and communities to the use of silver nitrate on every newborn's eyes, by getting children's eye clinics established, by teaching teachers to recognize impaired vision, by trying to eradicate trachoma, by preventing accidents and eye strain in industries...
Yale's President James Rowland Angell believes he has the sanest group of students in the world. That is because Yale was the first university to hire a staff psychiatrist. When a Yale man shows abnormality President Angell sends him to that psychiatrist, at present Dr. Clements Collard Fry. If Dr. Fry cannot straighten the student out, the boy is expelled. Only this month Yale dismissed two men, one a mental case, the other a sensual one. So President Angell boasted at the 20th anniversary dinner of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel...
Chess matches last so long that they acquire an individual character, an atmosphere, like that of a long book or a ponderous piece of music. When Dr. Alexander Alekhine and E. D. Bogoljubow began to play for the championship of the world last September in Wiesbaden it was soon evident that their match was unusual. It was no timid conflict between rivals mutually afraid of each other. It was a sort of scherzo in slow motion. They explored obscure, experimental lines of play. Instead of brooding for hours in the approved fashion of chess masters, they became at times noticeably...