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West Virginia. Small (enrollment 3,069) West Virginia University last week announced the appointment as its president of "the outstanding person in the field of education throughout the country." This person was identified as Chauncey Samuel Boucher, U. S. historian and dean of the College at the University of Chicago where he is No. 2 Man of Robert Maynard Hutchins' Chicago Plan...
...spread all over Provence, his inn is the stopping place for most of the pilots who are training for record-breaking flights, and his walls are a gallery of photographs of the first flyers of France. Here have stayed Rossi, Codos, Bossoutrot, Doret, Mermoz, Le Brix, the late lamented Boucher, all the bright company of those whose deeds have kept France in the van of aviation; and here, too, Delmotte, chunky, red-faced, and carefree, together with his dog, lived while attempting to break the record over the measured kilometer, with a 375 h.p. motor. And on Christmas...
Results, as published by Dean C. S. Boucher of Chicago in the New York Times, have been most satisfactory. Students who took examinations without full time attendance turned in better records than the large body of those attending regularly. The first group had five percent more A's, twelve per cent more B's, six per cent fewer D's, and seven per cent fewer failures, than those who attended most classes...
...Madison Square Garden. First was stocky, mournful-looking Bun Cook, who superstitiously insists on touching the ice before his teammates. Behind him glided his pugnacious Brother Bill, team captain, with whom he owns a big wheat farm in Saskatchewan, big, bald, grinning Ivan Wilfred ("Ching") Johnson, slender Frank Boucher, and a youngster named Murray Murdoch. With a few other teammates they made up the New York Rangers. They played that night against the Montreal Maroons...
...Christmas, had hoisted it from bottom to top of the National Hockey League's American division. At the end of the first period of last week's game, with the score 1-to-1, ceremonies took place. Diamond signet rings were presented to the famed forwards-Cook-Boucher-&-Cook; to Johnson, defense man who has raised a five-year-old son since that first game in the Garden; to silver-haired Manager Lester Patrick and to weather-beaten little Trainer Harry Westerby. When Murray Murdoch's turn came, there was a special ritual. Out stepped Lou Gehrig...