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...Manly, Chairman, Miss Georgiana Hawkins; Howes Burton, Miss Louise Bailey. E. R. Nash Jr., Miss Nancy Dravton; B. L. Kilgour Jr., Miss Margaret Elliott; J. W. Allen, Miss Helen Pipet...
...Coolidge telegraphed to Mrs. Marion LeRoy Burton their condolences on the death of her husband (see EDUCATION...
...Burton died last week, only a little over 50, leaving an enviable record as the President of one college and two Universities, all of first-rate importance. In 1874, he was born on a farm at Brooklyn, Iowa. His youth was spent in Minneapolis, and he was obliged to go to work when he had got through his first year of high school. At 19, he resumed his schooling. He was 22 when he entered Carleton College and almost 26 when he was graduated. At 29, he entered the Yale Divinity School. In three years, he took his Bachelor...
...after a memorable farewell dinner at which Lieutenant-Governor Calvin Coolidge presided, Dr. Burton became President of the University of Minnesota. He was there three years, whence he went to the University of Michigan and it was from there that his old friend Calvin Coolidge called him one day last June to deliver a nominating speech on his behalf at the Cleveland Convention of the Republican Party. It was Dr. Burton's only excursion into politics, although he had a definite bent in that direction. That speech brought Dr. Burton no mean amount of fame at the time...
Died. Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton, 50, President of the University of Michigan; in Ann Arbor, Mich., after a six months' illness (see EDUCATION...