Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Little thought that all students should be housed on the campus. Several thousand boarded at homes in Ann Arbor. Landladies, foreseeing a loss of income, threatened suit, charged profligacy, wrote irate letters to the Board of Regents. Next year, as Dr. Little planned, a huge women's dormitory will rise on the Michigan campus...
Last week, President Little admitted an impasse. With science-bred impersonality he accepted it as fact proven. To each member of the Board of Regents he wrote: "For some time two things have been increasingly apparent...
...First, that my methods of handling situations dealing with interests of private donors* political interests, 'local' interests and alumnae interests are not consistent with policies which the Board of Regents deems wise...
Inevitably, the Little resignation was followed by testimonials to the Little greatness. Students who had been acid, heaped praise. The Board of Regents spoke of "high ideals of educational standards," "initiative," "constructive aspirations," "frankness," "courage and sincerity...
Nine rounds having been fought (TIME, Jan. 28), the fight to a finish between John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Col. Robert Wright Stewart, minority stockholder and big board-chairman, respectively, of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, continued last week as follows...