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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, 64, famed pioneer of the automobile industry; of pneumonia; at his home in Chesterton, Md. Starting his career as a bicycle tinker in Kokomo, Ind., Maxwell, with two others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure...
...Michigan track history. He later established I. C. A. A. A. A. records in the shot put event. Now, as head of Horner's great alma mater, President Little is tonight welcoming to the West his own University track team on which he starred during his college career...
...course, as President Lowell points out, college presents a problem which is not evident in either secondary schools or in graduate schools. In the first, authority is recognized; in the second, the purpose of preparing for one's career in life is the guiding force. But in the college the student drifts about on uncharted waters. Seemingly there is nothing for the college to do but guide the motiveless creature through the morasses or else fire him with a zeal which will send him off on the trail of self-education. Men like Henry Adams scoffed at the idea...
...Until he ceases to be dumbfounded by the intricacies of the paths he is expected to tread and can be shown the objective of his scholastic endeavors, the active--minded youth will continue either to spend more time on his outside activities or drift aimlessly along through his college career...
...return from Europe, his political career ran a course similar to that of many senators. From the Missouri Legislature he graduated into the House for three Congresses. On November 2, 1926, he was elected to fill out the term of the late Senator S. P. Spencer, which expired in 1927, and to serve a six-year term until...