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Premier Bartel, a non-Socialist Laborite, rose from the estate of a locomotive engineer in his youth to the chief professorship of physics at the Lwow Polytechnical Institute. He won fame by his efficient superintendence of Poland's railway mobilization against the Soviets' attempted invasion six years ago. Last week he announced: 1) The Cabinet will at once convoke the National Assembly, which will elect a new President who must be acceptable to Marshal Pilsudski. 2) The Cabinet will then resign, and the President will name a new Premier. 3) Thereafter Parliament will be prorogued by executive decree until...
...restless business genius of Walter Clark Teagle. Once, not so long ago, he was indecisive about a career. He had done so well by getting his Cornell B. S. degree in chemistry in three years (he matriculated at 18) that that University offered him an instructorship with a professorship in sight. The initial salary of $600 annually tempted him little. However, the academic life...
Last spring Mr. Stillman also endowed a chair of poetry at the University, which is to be known as the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship and the purpose of which is to be instruction in poetry, in its broadest sense, including language, music and the fine arts. The first recipient of this chair, who is to come to Cambridge next fall, is Professor Gilbert Murray, of Oxford, a noted British Classicist and man of letters. Mr. Stillman has also made a number of gifts of books and paintings to the Widener Library and the Fogg Art Museum...
Professor Channing, a graduate in the class of 1878, was awarded the $2000 history prize for the sixth volume of his work, "The History of the United States." He became Professor of History in the University in 1897 and has held the McLean Professorship since...
...Fine Chair, name d after the Dean of the Departments of Science was recently endowed by T. D. Jones, Princeton '76, of Chicago, who requested that the professorship be awarded to a creative mathematician of high distinction...