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Otto Dix is a home-loving father of three, a cafe frequenter who hates to talk war. He saves part of his venom for his frequent studies of circuses, trollops, murders, pregnancies. So pungent was his art that Adolf Hitler removed him last year from a lucrative professorship in Dresden's Kunst Akademie. He has, how ever, painted many a kindly portrait of children, one of which is owned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller...
...lecture hall at the Sorbonne. The year was 1908. Two years before Marie Curie's husband, absorbed in his dreams, had been killed by a truck. Marie Curie had been appointed to the chair of physics which he had held, first woman to hold a Sorbonne professorship. This was the occasion of her first lecture. She appeared in a plain black working dress. She bowed politely, waited for the applause to stop, turned to her class sitting in a group. "Pierre Curie has prepared the following lesson for you," she said, and from a notebook began to read...
...fingers of Nicaraguan voters to prevent them from repeating at the polls. He was born on a small farm three miles west of Utica in western Pennsylvania, the summer home of his Presbyterian minister father.- In nearby Grove City (pop. 6.156), where his father had a pastorate and a professorship of Biblical Literature in tiny Grove City College, he grew up as any healthy, normal boy grows up in a U. S. small town. At Grove City College he played on a class basketball team, made good grades without half trying, captained a cadet corps company, managed the football team...
...Hugo), ostensibly for economy, smashed the Suzzalo system of Colleges, bore down on extracurricular activities, optional courses. That autumn Washington Alumnus Clarence Daniel Martin (Class of 1906) rode the Democratic landslide into the Governorship. President Spencer soon "asked" to be relieved of his job and given an English professorship. A new Board of Regents granted his first request, denied his second...
...President Conant's first outside appointment to a full professorship, Alfred Sherwood Romer, professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Chicago, has been elected professor of Biology. It was also announced at the same time that John Hasbrouck Van Vieck of the University of Wisconsin will become associate professor of Mathematics and Physics. Both appointments will become effective September...