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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special session, with Episcopal Bishop Thomas Frank Gailor presiding. For every honorary degree unanimous consent was necessary. When ballots on "General" Farley's name were scrutinized, one looked like a squiggly, illegible "No." It was certainly not a "Yes." Then up spoke Trustee Arthur Crownover, according to campus gossip, to point out that the by-laws said an illegible ballot must be thrown out. "Then throw it out." said Bishop Gailor...
Against Classics Professor John Andrew Rice, onetime Rhodes Scholar, brother-in-law of President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, there stood last spring the curious accusations of 1) whispering in chapel, 2) creating campus cliques, 3) swimming insufficiently clad in Florida's warm waters. President Holt asked Professor Rice quietly to resign. Professor Rice declined. Presently President Holt discovered the American Association of University Professors was looking into the case. At once President Holt fired Professor Rice. Then two Oxonians on the Rollins faculty expressed sympathy with Professor Rice. Out went one and the other resigned. Meanwhile...
...tree-girt campus of Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, 150 of the 1,200-odd Rhodes Scholars in the U. S. and Canada would for the first time hold a sizeable reunion. For them, few bottles, no antics. Most of them would bring wives and for those who brought children a nursery had been established. The program was to be scholarly indeed. Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry of Harvard Theological School, first Rhodesman sent abroad from Michigan, would deliver the Swarthmore baccalaureate. English Professor Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, first Rhodesman from West Virginia and now Yale's expert on Marlowe, would...
...issue of the Advance, undergraduate publication, which contained an account of the pacifist proceedings. This step, he explained was due rather to the fact that the issue was unauthorized than to the nature of its contents. While all this was taking place, members of the board of The Campus, another student paper, suspended by the Board of Higher Education because of an allegedly obscene issue, were awaiting a hearing...
...pages), typographically neat, University resembles the old College Humor, even to the conventional Rolf Armstrong cover. It includes a dozen pages of campus humor bought from undergraduate funnybooks; a novelette and a short story; a profusion of cartoons; sports by famed Grantland Rice; humorous sketches by such surefire Life contributors as Robert Benchley, Margaret Fishback, Gurney Williams, Montague Glass, Sam Hellman. Good feature : a portfolio of informal pictures of campus celebrities...