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...took the advice literally, spent 38 years of teaching there. Students liked his mixture of ham acting, old-fashioned oratory, prejudices. But many faculty members found him a bit too conscious of his family's long association with the university. His father was secretary of the trustees, did yeoman work in coaxing $600,000 out of the late John D. Rockefeller to start the university in 1891. They also wearied of his continual feuding with Professor Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, who held that the Gospels were written in an Aramaic dialect of Jesus' time, and were later translated...
...itself seems like a perfectly natural query which bars no distinctive quality to make it worthy of being identified as a milestone. Yet milestone it is! For it was from the lips of this anonymous interrogator that came forth for the ten-thousandth time the phrase which this yeoman has listened to, answered and lived with these many moons...
...first public appearance of the Radar rockets cannot a sensation, to say the feast. We always suspected that Cruft concealed a good many curves, even French curves, but not the kind used for Engineering drawing. The Rocketts also sang two numbers which were written by Yeoman Brill...
...great problem at Electronics school is not one of frequencies, oscillators or impedance. Rather it is the simple process of relaxation. "How can I relax?" asks the study-weary student, and Dr. Yeoman Brill comes pulling to the rescue with a few pertinent, though slightly irrational suggestions...
...situation and developments resulted in a wonderful bit of applied mass psychology. It could not have been better planned. ROY F. CHALKER Yeoman 2nd Class, U.S.N.R. Macon...