Word: brittingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...person has been so outstanding a proponent of the novel and the apparently unusual in American education as has the present incumbent of the Brittingham Chair of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Alexander Meiklejohn. His desire for the creation of a "new college" has long been known, if not completely understood. So with the publishing in the current "New Republic" of the formulated idea of the "new college" one can determine more precisely just whether or not he believes Dr. Meiklejohn's plan either sound or necessary...
...Richard Brittingham, a Sophomore at the Yale Sheffield Scientific School, and a candidate for the crew manager-ship, was taken out to Belle Dock in the middle of the harbor early Tuesday afternoon by the crew launch to check the shells as they rounded the outer mark, and to see that no mishap occurred. After supper that evening some thoughtful person remembered that he had not been brought back. A search was started immediately, and at about 9 o'clock the faithful but gloomy candidate was found still sitting at his post...