On this Day in NU History
March 2009 Archives
March 31, 2009
March 30, 2009
March 30, 1978: Two NU professors dismiss human cloning account: "Only a madman would want to clone a human being."
Biochemist and molecular biology department chairman David Shemin and biology professor Jeffery Doering discounted the claim raised in David Rorvik's book, In His Image, of a successful human cloning. Rorvik claims there to be a fourteen-month-old baby boy in California who is a perfect clone of his millionaire father. Doering said that the idea of human cloning is possible in theory but not in practice: "Harmful recessive genes would become more prominant, and there are ethical problems about who could be cloned and who couldn't." The main purpose of cloning research is not to create viable offspring, but to "increase the understanding of how genes function in higher organisms." There is currently no cloning research being performed at Northwestern.
March 29, 2009
March 29, 1964: Tyler Thompson, a Garrett Biblical Institute professor in philosophy of religion, is arrested with eight others while trying to integrate a large all-white church in Jackson, Mississippi.
Tyler Thompson, a Garrett Biblical Institute professor in philosophy of religion, is arrested with eight others while trying to integrate a large all-white church in Jackson, Mississippi. He is fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail for trespassing and disturbing public worship. He plans to appeal the decision and have the case remanded to federal court.
March 28, 2009
March 28, 1943: The Chicago Tribune reports on early graduation exercises for medical and dental students as part of the wartime accelerated program. 95% of the graduates' next step with be joining the military.
The Chicago Tribune reports on early graduation exercises for medical and dental students as part of the wartime accelerated program. 95% of the graduates' next step with be joining the military. 378 faculty and staff have joined up, as have more than 2,000 students.
Full article (via ProQuest, subscription required)
March 27, 2009
March 27, 1951: L. Dudley Stamp, professor of geography, London School of Economics, delivers lecture, "The Problem of Underdeveloped Lands with Special Reference to Africa," at University Hall.
March 26, 2009
March 26, 2008: Five NU music students announced to play at Kennedy Center as part of the John F. Kennedy for the Performing Arts Conservatory Project for developing and presenting young talent.
Karen Bliznik (trumpet), Ellen Huntington (flute), Jennise Hwang (violin), Sergiy Komirenko (piano), and Deanna Talens (cello) will perform at the Kennedy Center May 19 under the auspices of the Conversatory Project. The project is part of the Kennedy Center's "Performing Arts for Everyone" initiative.
Full article (via NU School of Music)
March 25, 2009
March 25, 2008: Dr. Laura Berman, assisant clinical professor of OB-GYN and psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine, appears on the Today Show to discuss recent research into an olfactory nerve that senses pheromones.
Article and Video (via MSNBC)
March 24, 2009
March 24, 1956: Television panel for The Reviewing Stand on "The New Soviet Line."
Television panel for The Reviewing Stand on "The New Soviet Line." Panel includes Carter L. Davidson, Executive Director, Chicago Council on Foreign Relations; Karl de Schweinitz, Jr., Associate Professor of Economics, Northwestern; and Roy C. Macridis, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern.
March 23, 2009
March 23, 1888: Mr. W. G. Hoag was instructed to sell a dry cow at the Woman's college, and buy one giving milk.
Junior exhibition. Speakers: F. C. Winslow, H. Potwin, W. Plested, A. W. Patten, A. D. Langworthy, I. B. Henry, J. H. Gill, M. Finity, T. Craven, M. C. Bragdon, W. D. Best, and W. H. H. Adams. (1869)
On motion of Dr. Cummings, Mr. W. G. Hoag was instructed to sell a dry cow at the Woman's college, and buy one giving milk. (1888)
March 22, 2009
March 1879: "Songs of Northwestern University" appears, 128 pp. ; compiled by J. A. Fisher, ex-'80. Seniors wear silk hats.
March 21, 2009
March 21, 2006: Feinberg School of Medicine researchers announce plan to study the use Botox as a method of treatment for hyperhidrosis, a condition causing over-persperation.
March 20, 2009
March 20, 1959: A Friday, Dearborn Observatory continues its tradition of opening to the public every clear Friday evening.
March 19, 2009
March 19, 1952: Deering Library displays exhibit on Diderot's Encyclopédie. Exhibit runs March 2-April 11.
March 18, 2009
March 18, 2009: President Henry Bienen delivers his last State of the University Speech before his August, 2009, retirement.
Text of the speech, with links to more information about President Bienen and his years at Northwestern, at http://www.northwestern.edu/president/addresses/09state.html
March 17, 2009
March 17, 1957: "The Wild West: Fact or Fiction?" Television panel to feature Ray Billington, Northwestern history professor.
"The Wild West: Fact or Fiction?" Panel: Ray A. Billington, Professor of History, Northwestern, and author, The Far Western Frontier; John H. Jameson, Copy Chief, Tatham-Laird, Inc., and President, Chicago Corral, The Westerns; and Don Russell, editorial staff, Standard Encyclopedia, and editor, The Western's Brand Book. 7:30 P.M., WGN-TV, and 8:30 P.M., WGN. (1957)
March 16, 2009
March 16, 1958: NU School of Speech is sponsor of television broadcast of Evanston Children's Theatre performing scenes from "Marco Polo" on the program "Wide Wide World."
March 15, 2009
March 15, 1894: Life-saving crew rescue four sailors from schooner Lincoln Dall, wrecked off Glencoe.
Life-saving crew rescue four sailors from schooner Lincoln Dall, wrecked off Glencoe.
University sermon by Rev. Dr. H. A. Cleveland. (1894)
Life-Saving Crew
Sophomores publicly reprimanded for concerted absence from recitation. (1867)
March 14, 2009
March 14, 1957: The Rev. Dr. John Baillie, President of the World Council of Churches and Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, delivers Mars Lecture, "What It Means to Be a Christian."
March 13, 2009
March 12, 2009
March 12, 1959: Civil Engineering Graduate Student Seminar: "Human Sustenance Systems in Outer Space," by L. G. Rich, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology.
March 11, 2009
March 11, 1958: Growth of Medicine Lecture Series: "Medical Aspects of Mediaeval Thought," by Barry Anson, Professor of Anatomy, and Chairman of the Department, Northwestern Medical School.
March 10, 2009
March 10, 1957: The Rev. Dr. John Baillie, President of the World Council of Churches and Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II delivers sermon during chapel services at Lutkin Hall.
March 9, 2009
March 9, 1960: Film Till Now Series: "The New Look in the Japanese Film 1952-; Streets of Shame." Tenth in a series of ten non-credit movie lectures sponsored by the School of Speech and conducted by Milan Herzog.
March 8, 2009
March 8, 1872: Freshman declamations for Kedzie prize.
Freshman declamations for Kedzie prize. (1872)
Program from the 1868 Kedzie Prize competition
Sophomore play, "What Became of Parker," presented at Fisk Hall. (1902)
Preliminary Northern Oratorical League contest. (1895)
March 7, 2009
March 7, 1958: St. Pat's Ball, sponsored by the Engineering Societies Council, an informal all-university dance at the Crystal Ballroom, Edgewater Beach Hotel.
March 6, 2009
March 6, 1956: Milton Friedman, professor of economics at University of Chicago, delivers lecture, "A Comparison of the Quantity Theory of Money and the Income-Expenditure Theory as a Means of Predicting Changes in Income," at Kresge Hall.
March 5, 2009
March 4, 2009
March 4, 1889: Tug-of-war team defeats Union Athletic Club and wins five gold-headed silk umbrellas.
Tug-of-war team defeats Union Athletic Club and wins five gold-headed silk umbrellas.
Scholarship established by Chicago Herald. (1889)
Tug-of-War Team, 1887
March 3, 2009
March 3, 2008: University President Henry Bienen announces decision to step down in August 2009.
University President Henry Bienen announces decision to step down in August 2009. Bienen, in his fourteenth year as President of NU, is the most senior president in the Big Ten conference. (2008)
Professor Gray, inventor, explains the musical telephone in entertainment for benefit of gymnasium. Music played in Chicago transmitted to Evanston over single wire. (1877)
The seventieth anniversary of Dr. Cummings' birth; he is presented with two etchings and an easy chair by the students at chapel, and in evening trustees, faculty, and friends call upon him and give him $1,500 to be used in taking a vacation. (1887)
