Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hygiene Department and Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, will talk on "Your Health and Mine"; Cecil K. Drinker, professor of Physiology and Dean of the School of Public Health, has chosen as his subject "Death on Monday Morning, or Man-Made Disease," and Hans Zinsser, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, will discuss "Laboratories and Epidemics." After these talks the subject will be thrown open to debate and questions will be invited from the floor, with President Conant acting as moderator...
...Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden (Wed. 9 p. m. CBS). Thornton Wilder's fantasy about a family who go for a drive in a car which never moves; produced by the Columbia Workshop...
When Actor Frank Craven took a holiday from his leading role of commentator in Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Thornton Wilder stepped into the part. Said Author-Actor Wilder of his Broadway debut: "I stuttered a little over my lines, clipped some of the words, tripped now & then." Said the critics: "He read his lines extremely well...
President John H. Pierpont 38 Vice-President James Mixter '40, Secretary-treasurer David Wilder '39, and Manager Howard Turner '40 announce trials for Freshmen beginning Monday and Tuesday. A new policy of choosing members for the Christmas trip on the basis of faithfulness and ability is to be inaugurated this year...
...asserted that Mussolini was full of Napoleonic ideas of waging open war against the Vatican, that the Pope was fearful, that the Holy See was considering, after the death of the present Pope, holding an election conclave elsewhere than in Vatican City. Some French Catholics had heard even wilder rumors, that the Vatican had sounded the French Government about the feasibility of moving the Holy See, bag & baggage, to liberal, tolerant France...