Word: athearn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oklahoma City University, President Walter Scott Athearn announced that the university would soon give academic credit for ping-pong, archery, skating, fraternity and sorority membership...
...FOLGER ATHEARN...
...leave with regret but without personal malice toward anyone," declared Dr. Walter Scott Athearn after Butler University's trustees had ousted him from its presidency last autumn (TIME. Nov. 13). Last week in Indianapolis, charging the dismissal had injured his reputation, Dr. Athearn filed suit against Butler for $100,000 damages...
...years ago Butler University at Indianapolis acquired a new president, Dr. Walter Scott Athearn, a stocky, heavy-jowled pedagog who had written a book a year for 26 years and been dean of Boston University's School of Religious Education and Social Service. Dr. Athearn found Butler badly off financially and because of professionalism in football no longer a member of the North Central Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools. He secured for it an anonymous gift of $2,000,000, soon got it reinstated in the Association. Last week Dr. Athearn was ousted from his job by Butler...
During the boom times, Butler University (enrollment: 1,414) at Indianapolis, Ind. did its athletes proud. It built a big stadium and an elaborate Butler Field House. Ruefully last week Butler's President Walter Scott Athearn took stock. University assets are some $6,000,000. Last year's deficit came to $7,000. Describing the athletic outlay as ''millstones about the neck of the school which bid fair to bankrupt and close [it] within five years." President Athearn declared that the day of intercollegiate athletic spectacles is gone, never to return. "Gate receipts,'' mourned...