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...little Olivet College, a school of Congregational leanings in Olivet, Mich., T. Barton Akeley, 47, had taught political science for twelve years. To townspeople of rural, conservative Olivet, Akeley was a queer fellow: he wore a goatee and a beret, held unpopular opinions, and once appeared downtown in shorts. Some of the alumni looked askance at him: he was critical of fraternities and intercollegiate sports. And to some of Olivet's 17-man board of trustees, Akeley's self-admitted "general disposition to be critical" about college affairs was a stiff pain in the neck...
...Know?" But most of Akeley's students liked him. To his partisans, he was a Socrates who left no orthodoxy, no complacency and no institution unexamined ("What do you know? How do you know it?"). When two months ago the trustees slipped Socrates the hemlock ("Your usefulness . . . has been fulfilled"), Akeley's student followers picketed the president's office in protest...
...McCutcheon took a round-the-trip, bumped into the Spanish War, was with Dewey at Manila Bay, moved on to sketch the Boer War for the folks jack home. Between junkets in 1903, he switched to the Tribune. He hunted in Africa with Carl Akeley and Teddy Roosevelt, covered both sides in World War I, always saw to it that his contracts called for long vacations. That gave him spare ime to write books, lend an encouraging land to youngsters like Milton (Terry and the Pirates) Caniff...
Artist Leigh learned his nature firsthand, trekking up & down the Western deserts with his paints and brushes in his knapsack. In 1926 he went with the American Museum of Natural History's late ace taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley on an expedition into East Africa to paint museum backdrops. Today, hale and high (6 ft. 2 in.) at 74, he lives comfortably in a trophy-laden Manhattan studio, helps his wife, Ethel Traphagen, collect costumes for the Traphagen School of Fashion, which she owns...
...School of Mines at the University of Paris, paying his expenses by collecting and selling European fossils. In 1861, aged 27, he became a professor of natural science at the University of Rochester. He assembled a group of skilled preparators which, at one time or another, included Carl Akeley, Charles Livingston Bull, William T. Hornaday, Frederic Lucas. He sold a $20,000 collection of fossils to the university, but went ahead with his mail-order business on a high scientific plane. He was killed by an automobile...