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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the attempts of fair-haired Vassarites to conceal the truth, the Lonely Hearts Club, Princeton's much discussed addition to campus organizations, is both active and successful...
George McKinlock pledged $250,000 to Northwestern in 1921 to buy nine acres on Lake Shore Drive for a campus for professional schools,* to be a memorial to his son, Lieut. George Alexander McKinlock Jr., who was killed by a German ma-chine gun near Soissons in 1918. Later he added to his gifts to Northwestern, donated some $500,000 all told. He also gave $500,000 for a freshman dormitory at Harvard, which his son had attended...
...weeks before his death last December, 78-year-old Philanthropist Mc-Kinlock asked the Northwestern trustees to cancel his contract to finance the campus. His holdings had depreciated so greatly during the Depression that he could not meet his pledges. Last week Northwestern made public an agreement which showed, that far from being spiteful towards a former benefactor who had had misfortune, it had made an arrangement with him to change the name of its campus and refund to the McKinlock family in five annual installments $155,717 which he had already paid...
...Northwestern's main campus is in suburban Evanston. On its Chicago Campus are medical and dental schools (for which Mrs. Montgomery Ward gave $3,000,000), a law school, a business school...
...Swarthmore's campus last week sprang up a successor to the Veterans of Future Wars. Undergraduates formed the United Scions of the Aristocracy, claiming 215 members, drafted a program for "uniting the scattered crumbs of the upper crust," planned to agitate for free caviar and champagne for 'Impecunious aristo-crats." First to receive their attention will be the "underfêted and undersoused one-thirtieth of the nation's population." Their legislative aims include pensions for indigent debutantes and for "well-bred worthies who can prove they have never soiled their hands with labor." Cried an aristocracy...