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Registrar Ruth Davenport said she has received many complaints about the early registration. Girls resented coming back on Friday when classes did not begin until Monday, thus "wasting" a weekend...
...Miss Davenport said the returning classes were of "average" size for the Annex...
Total 'Cliffe registration will hit 1375, according to Miss Davenport. This number includes 1020 undergraduates, 300 graduate students, and 55 women in the management program...
Alex McGarvey, a molder at Canadian General Electric's Davenport works in Toronto, did some union business on company time one day in 1949, over his foreman's objections. When the company suspended him for a week, McGarvey's fellow unionists in the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (Independent) retaliated with a 2½day work stoppage. Last week an arbitration board ruled that the union had violated its contract, and must pay the company $9,208.40 for losses suffered...
Last week in Iowa City the university celebrated the 25th anniversary of its experiment in "cooperation without compromise." A mixed group of religious leaders came to praise the school's work. Among them: Davenport's Roman Catholic Bishop Ralph L. Hayes, Des Moines' Methodist Bishop Charles W. Brashares, Des Moines' Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer. They just missed a chance to watch a typical example of cooperation in action. Fortnight before, a young Southern Baptist minister, the Rev. Kenneth P. Berg, had passed his oral examination for his Ph. D. in religion. His examiners, who learnedly discussed...