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...Leonard Carmichael, Professor of Pay- chology and Director of the Psychological Laboratory, Brown University, will be lecturer on Psychology during the first half-year. A graduate of Tufts in 1921, Professor Carmichael did graduate work at Harvard, receiving his Ph.D. in 1924. From 1924-27 he taught at Princeton, and in 1927 he went to Brown. He has taught several summers at the Harvard Summer School...
...post of dean of the graduate school and senior college Chancellor Kirkland had chosen no Vanderbilt wheel horse but President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael of Alabama College. President Carmichael is a onetime Rhodes scholar in anthropology who elected to teach French in Alabama schools. In 1922 he went to Alabama College as assistant to the president, stepped into his superior's shoes four years later. At 43 he is a progressive educator with a Hitler mustache and a talent for raising money...
...That Dr. Carmichael was swapping a president's chair for a dean's without the prospect of something higher seemed unlikely to most observers. No secret is it that old Dr. Kirkland would like to resign and devote more time to raising his prize iris blossoms, famed among Tennessee horticulturists. Last week Oliver Cromwell Carmichael looked like nothing so much as Vanderbilt's next chancellor, the man who will put a new educational pattern into effect...
...ambulance ready. Covering the 85 mi. without difficulty on two motors, he circled the field, glided in with one wing high, made a one-wheel landing which resulted in nothing more serious than a groundloop. Army flyers called the landing "a thing of beauty." Few minutes later Pilot Carmichael took off in another plane with three of his passengers, set them down safely in Detroit next morning...
...Pilot Carmichael will probably go the Air Mail Fliers' Medal, first awarded to Northwest Airlines' Mai Freeburg in 1932 for a similar feat...