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...higher learning: City College, Hunter College, Brooklyn College. Last fortnight Scripps-Howard's liberal Financial Pundit John Thomas Flynn, as chairman of a committee of the Board of Higher Education to get Queens College started, announced that his committee had picked a president. He was round-faced, Rumanian born Dr. Paul Klapper, 51, dean of the School of Education at City College. President-elect Klapper's salary will be raised from...
...eleven years John Gabbert Bowman, Iowa-born chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, has been building a 535-ft., 42-story skyscraper known to his admiring fellow citizens as the "Cathedral of Learning." During Depression, Pitt had to cut its faculty salaries and staged a Red hunt which got Chancellor Bowman into trouble with the American Association of University Professors. But the Cathedral of Learning kept climbing into the air. Last week, with Pitt's sesquicentennial celebration well under way, the Cathedral of Learning, now 90% complete, was opened to two days of public inspection. Into a vast, four...
This man was born "about 1864" in a cabin near Diamond Grove, Mo. His parents were slaves, owned by Moses Carver, who gave the pickaninny his own surname and christened him George Washington. One night the baby and his mother were stolen by raiders. The mother was never heard of again but agents of Moses Carver found the baby and got him back by swapping a race horse. In childhood George Washington Carver mastered every word in his spelling book. Finding himself a free but penniless orphan, he got what schooling he could in Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, supporting himself...
Edward Mooney, born in Mt. Savage, Md. 55 years ago, was sent, as only the most promising Catholic youths are sent, to the North American College in Rome. Returning to the diocese of Cleveland, Father Mooney served as a professor at the Seminary of Our Lady of the Lake, later established and headed Cathedral Latin School for boys. He held a pastorate in Youngstown, Ohio until, in 1923, he was recalled to Rome to be Spiritual Director of his own North American College. The late Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State, met the U. S. priest in preparing...
...Born in Idutywa, South Africa, David Mdodana was taken to the U. S. in his youth by Baptist missionaries. They sent him to several Negro universities-Shaw, Tuskegee, Hampton, Selma. He celebrated 25 years of work by donning a white satin robe stitched by women of his church, preaching 25 of his best sermons consecutively in 17 hours. Some of the sermons: The Prodigal Son, The Beam and the Mote, Be Still, Ethiopia Stretches Forth Her Hands, Where Are We Spiritually, Educationally and Socially?, The Soul's Anchor, The Borrowed...