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Robert Frost who last year retired from his professorship of English at Amherst, will give the second poetry lecture some time in November. The nature of his talk has not yet been determined...
Rhode Island's Senator Green implored Secretary Hull today to take whatever steps are necessary to get ex-President Benes into this country. Brown University has offered the statesman a professorship of international relations...
Presbyterian Princeton Seminary last week took a strategic seat in the theological van. To Princeton as guest professor (one year) of Systematic Theology -and possibly to fill permanently its Hodge professorship in that subject- came one of the ablest of European theologians, Dr. Emil Brunner, late of the University of Zurich. Princeton thus reinforced its support of the "New Orthodoxy," the new theology based on old revealed truths and largely associated with the name of Switzerland's Karl Earth (TIME, April 25). Often bracketed with Earth, but not his follower, Dr. Brunner is a Bible theologian, orthodox enough...
...Lawrence Bragg, fifth Cavendish Professor. Like his predecessor, Lord Rutherford, Professor Bragg, 48, was born in the Dominions. His father is Sir William Henry Bragg, who has a scientific reputation no less lustrous than his son's. In 1885 the elder Bragg sailed from England to assume a professorship of mathematics and physics at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Primarily a mathematician, he bought a batch of textbooks, boned up on physics during the voyage...
...maternal grandfather send Australia's first wireless signals. With equal vividness he recalls the awe with which he regarded a piece of radium brought to Australia by Frederick Soddy, famed pioneer in the study of isotopes. When William was 18 his father returned to England to assume a professorship at Leeds. William graduated from Cambridge's Trinity College, started research work at Cavendish under Electron-Discoverer Thomson. About that time the elder Bragg showed his son some reports by Germany's Max von Laue. who was finding curious bright spots when X-rays are diffracted by crystals...