Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professors. Dear to the heart of the undergraduate is many a teaching professor. Him they afterward remember for what little light and learning they possess, and also for his eccentricities, for good fellowship. When they grow old they swap anecdotes about him; if they become Trustees they like to see him prosper in his fashion. But the research professors, who sometimes regard the civilizing of students as a vague, even faintly vulgar waste of time, are the darlings of their erudite colleagues and often of the president, who feels the responsibility of keeping the University in a good competitive position...
Simultaneously Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, Yale lecturer, promoter of Avon Old Farms, announced that, sorry as he was to see Pedagog French leave Yale, he was glad to get him at Avon. Said Dr. Canby: "In accepting the Provostship of Avon, he is not leaving the educational area in which good teaching and the sympathetic handling of youth are so important, but shifting his ground...
...petition by Bethlehem Steel Corp., said to be a $400,000 creditor. In this receivership there was not evident the aftermath of the market's break, as had been true in the Fox trusteeship (TIME, Dec. 16), nor of poor trade conditions as in the American Piano receivership (see p. 30). There was little reason to believe that Combustion's total assets, which exceeded $60,000,000 at the end of 1928, have depreciated. Causes of the company's troubles are supposed to have arisen from heavy expenditures in distillation experiments and poor management. According to rumor...
Proud Petkiewicz is as yet inexperienced. Although insisting that he came merely to see how U. S. universities taught law, he brought his track clothes with him and immediately presented himself for recognition...
Birthday. Prince George of England; at Sunningdale where he has been suffering from insomnia. Age: 27 (see...