Word: carleton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East Side" (female) dormitories of Minnesota's coeducational little Carleton College, delighted coeds caroled last week: "Anchors aweigh, gals-here comes the Navy!" Carleton's men students were excited. Their college had just realized a collegian's dream: a student flying corps in which they can win their military wings. It was the first such corps in a U.S. college...
...Carleton's shaggy-browed, popular President Donald John Cowling had pulled a palpable coup. With collegians throughout the nation eager to get into the air corps, President Cowling had got the Army, Navy and Marines to collaborate in training fledgling flyers on his campus while they continue their college education. Some 300 of Carleton's 450 men students will be enlisted in the corps, known as CCOC (Carleton College Officers Corps). Most of them will enlist as reservists in the Navy. Carleton promptly christened the outfit "The Flying Carls...
...Carleton is no Siwash. A Middle West Swarthmore, it is rated one of the best small colleges in the U.S. President Cowling in many ways resembles Swarthmore's former President Frank Aydelotte, a good friend of his. In his 32 years as Carleton's president. Cowling has increased its wealth tenfold (now nearly $8,000,000 in endowment and plant) and created an idyllic little college. In a region where State universities predominate, Carleton (cost: $850 a year) is considered a rich boys' & girls' college, but President Cowling tolerates no swank. His students are forbidden cars...
...Carleton was the first college to establish a biography department, has an excel lent astronomy department (with an observatory on the campus) and a famed department of international relations, for which President Cowling wangled $500,000 from the late Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg. Of Carleton's brilliant faculty, five are former college presidents...
...Army Commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lieut. General Delos Carleton Emmons, 53, Chief of the Air Force Combat Command, a flyer since 1917 (4,000 hours plus), a hard-riding perfectionist, tough as parachute silk. This appointment significantly put a flyer in command of all Army forces in Hawaii...