Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John S. Thompson, Wisconsin alumni secretary (quoting an earlier resolution of Wisconsin regents) : " 'Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state university of Wisconsin should ever encourage that fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone truth may be found...
...Yale of political and social science, as to a hero of their youth. They declare there was hone like him for forthrightness, wisdom, integrity.* They say the "grand manner," the strong individualism of which he was such an exemplar, is gone out of college professors in these days of alumni control, teaching unions, mass education. Survivors of Yale '83, for instance, recall how they were circularized their senior year with copies of The New York Tribune in which was marked an editorial attack upon the ardent young free-trade professor: "Men who are really able are not often inclined...
...Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N. J.) the alumni paraded behind George S. Silzer, LL.D., '23, Governor of New Jersey. The trustees announced the election of Dr. John Martin Thomas, President of Pennsylvania State College, to succeed Dr. William H. S. Demarest (resigned 1924) as President of Rutgers. The University exchanged distinctions with Tsuneo Matsudaira, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., by making that gentleman an honorary Doctor of Laws...
Announcement will be made at the Alumni exercises of the election of the Board of Overseers of the University for the year 1925-26. At the same time the result of the voting for the three new Directors of the Alumni Association will be announced...
...benefit of the throngs of alumni and undergraduates who are planning to attend the New London classic between the oarsmen of Harvard and Yale on Friday the New Haven Railroad announced today that a special train, consisting of parlor cars, a dining car, and coaches will be operated from Boston to New London on that date...