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Significant AT PHILANDER SMITH D R O . R o b e r t L. Clark, graduate of Illinois University, who is teaching this year a t Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Ark. He heads the h i s t o r y deo f p a r t m e n t this institution, of which Bro. Dr. M. LaFayette Harris serves as president. Bro. Clark was one of the many visitors to The Sphinx office this past summer. His connection with Philander Smith will do much to strengthen the newly organized chapter, Beta Chi. He holds membership at BRO. ROBERT L. CLARK present in Tau Chapter, Illinois University, where he also received his Master's degree in Political Science this summer.
AT SOUTHERN U. D R O . Robert Douglass Bullock, a native of Greensboro, N' C , and member of Beta Epsilon Chapter, has accepted a position as veterinarian at Southern University," Scotlandville, La. Bro. Bullock t o o k his .pre - veterinary work at A. & I. College and Ohio State University. In 1934 he registered in the Colleg* of Veterinary Medicine at the State College of Washington, where he received both -his Bachelor of Science in Veterinary Science and Doctor of ROBERT D. BULLOCK Veterinary Medicine, in June, 1938. While a student at W. S. C. he was elected to the vice-presidency of the Cosmopolitan Club, was a member of the Intra-Mural Boxing Team and also of the Junior American Veterinary Medicine Association. During the past summer, he was employed by Prairie View' State College, as assistant veterinarian under the supervision of Bro. E. B. Evans.
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October, 1938
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RECEIVES DOCTORATE p\R. J o s e p h A. Pierce, Prof, o f M a t h e m a t i c s at Wiley College, was granted the Doctor of Philosophy Degree by the University of Michigan on June 18th. While his work embraced all phases of mathematics, Bro. Pierce specialized in maih2matical statistics. The subject of his dissertation was "A Study of a Universe of Infinite Populations With Application to Moment - Function Adjustments f o r Grouped Data." In the course of his study at the UniverDR. JOSEPH A. PIERCE sity of Michigan, Bro. Pierce received several unusual and distinctive honors. He was graduated assistant in the Department of Mathematics and was elected to full membership in Sigma Xi, national honorary scientific society. Along with other publications, Dr. Pierce is co-author of "Introductory College Mathematics," a freshman college textbook which has been adopted for use by several colleges. Bro. Pierce received the A.B. degree from Atlanta University in 1925 and the M.S. degree from the University of Michigan in 1930.
MUSIC CAREER DRO. W i l l i a m Beasley, Jr., Beta Pi Chapter, and 1938 graduate of Lane College who shows a promising career as a musician. Bro. Beasley, during his college days at Lane, was a member of the Lane College Choral Society and the Glee Club with which he made tours recently in the North and East. He is studying this year at Howard University.
WILLIAM BEASLEY, JR.