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...when in 1925 Dr. Howard McClenahan, physics professor and dean of the College since 1912, left to become secretary of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute. Esteemed as an able teacher and wit, he was always ready to stop for a friendly chat on his cane-clumping jaunts about the campus. But he had another, official manner-head back, eyelids drooping, speech slow and precise - which made many an under graduate quake...
...social system, taking the term in its widest sense, is frankly extra-curricular in its emphasis. The important thing to do is to heel some organization, to make yourself known, to make a fraternity and possibly, if that summit of campus ambition can be attained, a Senior Society. One is careful, particularly during his first two years, to speak only to the right people, and to avoid those of less prominent rank. Andover men, outnumbering those from any other school, place particular importance on this sort of thing and usually excel...
...undersigned men, backed by 14 national fraternities and four local fraternities, feel that conditions on Duke campus at the present time are such that you should come at once to see for yourself that student opinion means nothing to the present administration. We feel that we are treated like children, not men. Real universities do not treat student opinion with contempt. For thorough investigation we suggest that you do not communicate with any members of the administration. Wire when you will arrive...
Spark which touched off the long-smouldering revolt was a ruling week before by Dean William Hane Wannamaker. Because he had not been present to preside, he had voided the trial of a student offender by the students' Pan-Hellenic (interfraternity) Council. Next day the campus rumbled ominously. Just before midnight some 1,500 students clumped grimly into the university gymnasium, heard quiet, studious Joseph T. Shackford, president of the Student Council, urge them to be orderly but determined. Jack Dunlap, football captain-elect, announced that the rebels would take over next morning's assembly period to present...
Municipal University of Wichita was organized as Fairmount Institute in 1892, taken over by the city in 1926. It has a rolling, 80-acre campus on the city's edge, some 2,000 students enrolled in colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration & Industry, Education, Fine & Applied Arts, Aeronautics. Most famed is its Omnibus College which each summer takes 700 students on a camping-out bus ride over the U. S. and Canada, with courses and credits on the go (TIME, July...