Word: topflight
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Professor Stephen Sargent Visher thumbed patiently through three editions of a fat volume in which topflight science men were starred by asterisks. American Men of Science was launched nearly three decades ago with a $1,000 grant from the Carnegie Institution. Through five editions it has been edited by Dr. James McKeen Cattell, now 73, himself a starred psychologist. But Dr. Cattell awards no star either to himself or to others. From the beginning starred scientists have been chosen by vote of men of standing in their respective fields. For the latest edition 250 were selected from some...
Harvard's Medical School, in the U. S. topflight with Columbia's, Cornell's, Johns Hopkins', may expect a friendly eye from President Conant, long a frequent visitor to its laboratories. Failures are rare among its hand-picked students, limited to 125 per class. It has all Boston's hospitals for laboratory, most topnotch Boston doctors on its staff. The Medical School plumes itself on Elliott Carr Cutler, 45 (brain surgery); Walter Bradford Cannon, 62 (physiology); Hans Zinsser, 55 (bacteriology); Varaztad Hovannes Kazanjian, 54 (plastic surgery...