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...Negro students at Baldwin-Wallace College, Bones has been a campus celebrity for some time. Last year his fellow students raised $1,500 among themselves to set up a scholarship for his firstborn child (if & when he begins to raise a family; he is still a bachelor). Bones's fame has now spread far beyond the campus. A skinny 5 ft. 10 in. tall, he is the greatest high & low hurdler who ever wore spikes. He holds nine world records at different distances, and is the safest bet the U.S. has for the Olympic Games in July...
Teacher Fisher, raised in Volens by a bachelor uncle and a maiden aunt, hopes to study for an M.A. at either Columbia or the University of Chicago. But he will come back to a country school ("That's where I want to be"). He doesn't worry much about his $1,650 salary: "I didn't enter teaching to get rich...
...time to literature, yet yearned for the satisfactions of conventional family life. He thought of his "possible future wife and possible children," only to realize that his ill health (he died of tuberculosis at 40) would prevent him from having either. "It seems so dreadful to be a bachelor, to become an old man struggling to keep one's dignity while begging for an invitation whenever one wants to spend an evening in company . . . never being able to run up a stairway beside one's wife . . . having to admire other people's children...
...except that he had graduated from the law school in 1896, that he had now retired from a Detroit law firm, had come back to the university and asked permission to live there. President Ruthven saw no reason not to grant the old grad's wish. A bachelor in his 70s, Crapo lived in one room at the Student Union, and spent most of the day in a leather chair in the lobby, buried behind his New York Times...
Fireman. In Waco, Tex., when three women tried to help him fight a fire in his room, 74-year-old Bachelor Tug J. Boleman decided to let the building burn up, later explained: "Women make me nervous...