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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...written some 170 papers and books in long, periodic sentences which loop and wind halfway down the page. To stress the dynamic nature of disease, he invented a new system of classification based on the Greek root erg (from ergon, work). Medical students in his courses, who had to learn such tonguetwisters as ergasiatry (psychiatry), oligergasia (idiocy), merergasia (hysteria), promptly for got them after examinations. Although few understand just what Dr. Meyer says, all his colleagues know what he means. (At a Hopkins celebration once, a student delivered a long speech in Chinese, then announced: "You have just heard...
...wonder if a mere local student reaction supported by the local press is enough, now that academic freedom, prestige, even tax-exemption are perhaps at stake. . . . No matter what happens in Europe or here, the poise and loyalty of American scholarship must remain above suspicion. Let us not learn too late that the educated fool can cite "historical facts" to prove his purpose just as well as the devil can cite scripture. Furthermore, let us not forget that the original Trojan horse that doomed Troy did not goose-step through the gates, but entered as a holy sanctimonious offering...
Three of them are Yalemen; all of them want to be better. One of them started life (after Yale '28) as a floorwalker in Macy's, eager to learn in that temple the arcana of business success. He later got a job with FORTUNE. One was a Chicago boy who (after Yale '27) wandered to Spain, North Africa, Florida in search of the right place to sit down and write. One (an indispensable one) had money: a Yale ('28) esthete whose Manhattan family helped manage the Revolution (1776) and has since been so well-satisfied with...
...Puget Sound, from Tortugas to California, in Naples, Bermuda, the Philippines, Java, The Netherlands East Indies, Dr. Harvey, safe & sound, is now a professor of biology at Princeton. His wife. Ethel Browne Harvey, is a distinguished biologist. For a quarter-century. Edmund Harvey has experimented much, read enormously, to learn all he could about the phenomenon of bioluminescence-production of light by living creatures. This week he publishes a summary called Living Light (Princeton University Press...
...styled "Irish-American," Ward says little that would identify him to a U. S. audience. Like his English counterpart Lord Haw-Haw, Ward preferred to remain unknown, once admitted: "America is my natal land. . . . I'm not so blind that I can't see where we may learn something from others, and I myself am one of those most in need of education. ... I had become a bored and cynical NOman...