Please review my
copyedits to ensure I didn't mess things up. Many of these comments are beyond GA level; I'm assuming this will eventually find it's way to FAC (it's close already, IMHO), so perhaps the extra nitpicking may be useful.
Sasata (
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06:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)reply
the text declares that he was the "Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry", but it isn't indicated here or later in the article the significance of the title
"He dispensed with a number of customs, including class rankings and the requirement for Latin" Latin classes or speaking Latin? (another instance in the "President of Harvard" section)
I understand there's some complexities involved with converting older dollar values to current values, but it would be useful if there some kind of measure of how large his 1927 salary offer was. Same applies for the 2,500 marks that appears later.
"He also published three papers describing experiments in which he polymerized isoprene to create synthetic rubber." consider adding the underlined
Of course, if he had thought of seeing what happened if he substituted ethylene for isoprene, he would have really been on to something. But for some reason, the idea never occurred to him.
Hawkeye7 (
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12:15, 5 June 2012 (UTC)reply
"Hanfstaengl wrote out a check for 2,500 marks to Conant for a scholarship." I'm not quite parsing this sentence correctly; is the implication that Hanfstaengl gave money to Conant to fund a scholarship to be awarded to some worthy student, but the money was tainted because of Hanfstaengl's Nazi sympathies? Later, in 1936, "Conant turned it down" … what did he turn down? Hanfstaengl's offer?
"… despite the presence of Franklin D. Roosevelt of the class of 1904, whom many Harvard graduates regarded as a socialist and a class traitor." Just to clarify I'm understanding this correctly, the Harvard graduates thought that the then-President of the United States was a socialist and class traitor?
I'm not terribly familiar with US history, so the Harvard anti-Roosevelt sentiment is new to me; your clarification in the article helps assure me I was reading it correctly.
Sasata (
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20:11, 9 June 2012 (UTC)reply
How about calling "Publications" "Selected publication", as none of his journal articles are listed. Are there any articles that are especially significant or highly cited and might be worthy of inclusion in this list?
As a general comment on the mostly excellent prose, many sentences employ a structure where "which" is used as a pronoun to refer to a whole idea or phrase. If you highlight all occurrences of this word using your browser, you might agree it is a little overused, and the text might flow better if the occurrences in some dense patches were reduced.
the duplicate links tool shows some links that could be trimmed; one dablink is present
Please review my
copyedits to ensure I didn't mess things up. Many of these comments are beyond GA level; I'm assuming this will eventually find it's way to FAC (it's close already, IMHO), so perhaps the extra nitpicking may be useful.
Sasata (
talk)
06:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)reply
the text declares that he was the "Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry", but it isn't indicated here or later in the article the significance of the title
"He dispensed with a number of customs, including class rankings and the requirement for Latin" Latin classes or speaking Latin? (another instance in the "President of Harvard" section)
I understand there's some complexities involved with converting older dollar values to current values, but it would be useful if there some kind of measure of how large his 1927 salary offer was. Same applies for the 2,500 marks that appears later.
"He also published three papers describing experiments in which he polymerized isoprene to create synthetic rubber." consider adding the underlined
Of course, if he had thought of seeing what happened if he substituted ethylene for isoprene, he would have really been on to something. But for some reason, the idea never occurred to him.
Hawkeye7 (
talk)
12:15, 5 June 2012 (UTC)reply
"Hanfstaengl wrote out a check for 2,500 marks to Conant for a scholarship." I'm not quite parsing this sentence correctly; is the implication that Hanfstaengl gave money to Conant to fund a scholarship to be awarded to some worthy student, but the money was tainted because of Hanfstaengl's Nazi sympathies? Later, in 1936, "Conant turned it down" … what did he turn down? Hanfstaengl's offer?
"… despite the presence of Franklin D. Roosevelt of the class of 1904, whom many Harvard graduates regarded as a socialist and a class traitor." Just to clarify I'm understanding this correctly, the Harvard graduates thought that the then-President of the United States was a socialist and class traitor?
I'm not terribly familiar with US history, so the Harvard anti-Roosevelt sentiment is new to me; your clarification in the article helps assure me I was reading it correctly.
Sasata (
talk)
20:11, 9 June 2012 (UTC)reply
How about calling "Publications" "Selected publication", as none of his journal articles are listed. Are there any articles that are especially significant or highly cited and might be worthy of inclusion in this list?
As a general comment on the mostly excellent prose, many sentences employ a structure where "which" is used as a pronoun to refer to a whole idea or phrase. If you highlight all occurrences of this word using your browser, you might agree it is a little overused, and the text might flow better if the occurrences in some dense patches were reduced.
the duplicate links tool shows some links that could be trimmed; one dablink is present