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Last week Dr. Kellogg completed a comprehensive series of tests, reported on his experiment to the Mid-Western Psychological Association at its meeting in Bloomington, Ind. The tests tended to show that most of the behavior of both human and simian infants is not natural but acquired through teaching. The chimpanzee, having a shorter lifespan, develops more rapidly than a human being...
...Revelers in 1925, started making the smooth arrange ments which make Revelers sound better than other male quartets. The two new Revelers still look like good-natured college boys: Baritone Phil Dewey, who not long ago was earning $3 a Sunday singing in the Methodist Church choir of Bloomington. Ind. ; and tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) James Melton from Ocala, Fla. In 1929, shortly before the quartet took its first European tour, young James Melton married Marjorie Louise McClure, daughter of Novelist Marjorie Barkley McClure. The Revelers earn their big money now broadcasting for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over...
...Indiana University wrestling team: the national collegiate championship, in a tournament at Bloomington, Ind.; with 13 points, to 11 for Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College...
Children of California. Native of Gainesville, N. Y., Cornell graduate (1872), robustious baseball player (he broke his nose at it), studious teacher of Zoology, David Starr Jordan became president in 1885 of Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind. Aged 34, he was then Youngest U. S. College President. He began at once to reorganize his inland, politically controlled institution, to cajole dollars from lackadaisical Indiana legislators. He put in practice a then radical notion: to mold education to the student rather than to force the student into a tight educational jacket...
When he had about completed his program at Bloomington, there came to visit him an elderly Californian, Senator Leland Stanford, and his wife, Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford. Once Governor of California, Senator Stanford was a rich, celebrated horse breeder. To Dr. Jordan he explained his mission: his only son, Leland Stanford Jr. had died of Roman fever in 1884, aged 16, in Florence, Italy. To perpetuate his memory Senator & Mrs. Stanford had founded a university "free from traditions and precedents, one that will fit men and women for lives of service." The great Stanford horse farm in the wooded hills...