Shaping things in orderly fashion: Samuel Wesley Stratton, 1861–1931

Shaping things in orderly fashion: Samuel Wesley Stratton, 1861–1931

A new presidential search began two or three weeks after Ernest Fox Nichols resigned on November 3, 1921. E. B. Wilson and Francis Hart nominated candidates that some viewed as bold choices, others as desperate last resorts. Hart went to bat for Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador to the United...

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Zusammenfassung:A new presidential search began two or three weeks after Ernest Fox Nichols resigned on November 3, 1921. E. B. Wilson and Francis Hart nominated candidates that some viewed as bold choices, others as desperate last resorts. Hart went to bat for Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador to the United States, who had withdrawn as principal of McGill University in order to join the diplomatic service. Wilson thought Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, worth considering—“a physicist by no means so eminent as his father, but of entire respectability,” who the year before had resigned his faculty post at