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Like many another Midwestern school, Kenyon College at tiny Gambier, Ohio was built by one of the many Eastern clergymen who swarmed into the Western territories after the War of 1812. Since then Kenyon has passed two stiff tests. First was to face down the animosity of its Ohio neighbors who, learning that Founder-Bishop Philander Chase had raised his first $30,000 from the British nobility, firmly believed that Kenyon was a British fort. That notion Kenyon scouted by graduating many a stanch U. S. citizen, including two members of the Lincoln Cabinet, Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton...
Second, and more serious, threat to Kenyon was the impecunious rut into which small denominational colleges are apt to fall. For avoiding it Kenyonites give full credit to their lanky, weather-beaten President William Foster ("Fat") Peirce who, since he came from Boston in 1892, has built Kenyon a spruce modern plant, raised an endowment of $1,600,000. Under President Peirce, Kenyon has drawn its 250 students largely from prosperous Episcopalian families, supported flourishing chapters of the swanker Greek letter fraternities rarely found on Midwestern campuses. Particularly proud are Kenyon-ites of the college's trim airport...
Donald Douglas started his own company in 1920, built military and private planes exclusively for twelve years. Then TWA prompted him to try his hand at commercial transports. The experimental DCi, slightly improved and renamed DC-2, was the result. Last week, the much-heralded DC-3 (also known as DST, for Douglas Sleeper Transport) finally made its debut. Almost identical with the DC2 in lines, it is 4-ft. longer, much fatter, seats 24 or sleeps 16. The largest landplane in the U. S., it cruises at 200 m.p.h., costs no more to run than...
...bacteriologist who studied under Pasteur (1822-95), one of the few living who studied under Koch (1843-1910), prototype of benign and learned Dr. Gottlieb in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith, Octogenarian Mr. Bausch, who still designs new optical devices, last week gave a newly completed microscope, 250,000th built by Bausch & Lomb during 60 years of manufacturing microscopes. Dr. Novy, however, will not use the microscope himself. Fifty years in laboratories have overstrained his eyes...
...British contender for the title of "largest ship afloat" which was built on the River Clyde and is now in active service is the (1 George V , 2 Glasgow, 3 Queen Mary, 4 Normandie, 5 Leviathan...