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...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...
...Lecture on "The Work of the Bureau of Economics," by Mr. F. G. Athearn, Manager of the Bureau of Economics of Southern Pacific Company, San Francisco, Cal., in Room H, of Emerson Hall...
...Athearn, manager of the Southern Pacific Bureau of Economics in San Francisco, will deliver a lecture on "The Work of the Bureau of Economics," in Emerson H, today at 2.30 o'clock, under the auspices of the Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Athern is in charge of the selection and training of student apprentices, who are given a four year's course embracing instruction and actual experience in every branch of the operating department of the Harriman lines, with the idea of developing a small corps of broadly trained college men from which to draw for the subordinate official...
...Athearn, manager of the Southern Pacific's Bureau of Economics in San Francisco, will lecture under the auspices of the Business School in Emerson H, tomorrow afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock...