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Doctor Theobald Smith, one of the country's great pathologists and bacteriologists, last week ate a dinner in his own monument: a house overlooking Princeton University campus and Carnegie Lake. Professor Smith lived in the house with his family during the 15 years (1915-29) he was director of the Rockefeller Institute's department of animal pathology. He has retired now and remains in the neighborhood only as consultant. The Rockefeller Institute providently remodeled the house for use of its entire animal pathology staff and last week's dinner signified the transformation of home to monument...
...professors, one of the youngest presidents in the U. S.-Kenneth Irving Brown, 35. Its alumni include Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (ex-1901), Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva of Zion City, Ill., Board Chairman James Anson Campbell of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Cleveland Banker George York. On its quiet campus, one of whose buildings is the College's original Main Hall, the celebration took place last week with fitting eclat...
...venerated Lawyer Andrew Squire of Cleveland, student under President Garfield, who told how he alone of his class was too young (11) to serve in the Civil War when Lieut. Colonel Garfield was mustering a regiment. Two Hiram coeds, dressed in hoopskirts, helped plant an evergreen tree on the campus. "Taps" sounded as a flag was run up the flagstaff-the flag which covered President Garfield's casket after his assassination...
...Even off campus social activities center at the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco--such are the scruples and the loyalty of the sons of the Stanford...
...Drury's idea is equally significant when applied to college life. If learning is the main purpose of the under-graduate years for many intellectually- minded students, one University campus can hardly be the best source of all the subjects which interest them. A foreign language, for example, is often a dull affair in a section meeting. Yet when spoken in a proper European manner as a natural part of everyday existence, it becomes alive and inspiring. The best of college does not provide nearly so wide and opportunity for acquiring facility in pronunciation and conversation. In general the same...