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With Colonel Lindbergh eliminated because of his years, public opinion gives definite indications of making Will Rogers its choice for the next president. Favorite son of Oklahoma, mayor of Claremont, California, the humorist has been so long an important critic of politics that his qualifications as a practitioner are worthy of consideration. True he is a humorist, but he is a serious humorist. His comic spirit is no capricious tease, or polished wit, or jovial scholar, but the ghost of a shrewd, observant Yankee with twinkling eyes and pursed lips. It is the spirit of Mark Twain, or Josh Billings...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr., of more than $1,750,000 for a 500-room dormitory to be known as the International House. Half of the rooms are for women. 300 residents are to be foreign students. ¶ Scripps College for Women, which, with Pomona College, has allied itself to Claremont Colleges federation in California for the purpose of integrating the benefits of small college education with the advantages of large college equipment, announced the inauguration of its first president, Ernest J. Jaqua, and the dedication of its first building, the Eleanor Joy Toll Residence Hall...
Bones. Old bones, so old that they have turned to stone, excite the lay imagination more quickly than anything else the diggers find. Students of Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) saw a bony protuberance exposed by a landslide on the shale cliffs of Los Angeles Harbor last spring. They picked and pried it loose, a bone five feet long, weighing 55 pounds, encrusted with marine fossils. What was it? wondered gaping natives. The femur (thigh bone), said Pomona professors, of a giant elephant that roamed California 20,000 years ago when the rim of the Pacific lay much higher inland...
Died. Burt William Johnson, 37, sculptor; at Claremont, Calif., from a heart attack. His work on a group of figures for the Fine Arts Building of Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) was heroically completed in bed and from a wheel chair while the sculptor was suffering from influenza and heart trouble. His casket was covered with apple and peach blossoms, instead of stiff "floral pieces." A memorial service was held in Bridges Hall of Music where the fountain, "Spanish Music," perhaps the sculptor's best known work, gives inspiration...
...Professor Meiklejohn in the possibility of cultural education upon a new plan. A further experiment not yet begun is the plan of a college without trustees or president and administered on liberal and democratic terms. Tentative efforts have already been made for its founding. In the West the old Claremont Colleges in California, with their program recently announced, stand out as foremost examples of what is going on. Unnamed new colleges are being cut out of whole cloth; and the old educational world is watching in order to see whether the pattern will tell us anything...