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...book proposes the next step in human progress. Mr. Denison realizes, with the late J. B. Bury, that to understand the causes of civilization and to direct its future development, the laws of its past movement must be ascertained from history with scientific precision. Assuming that civilization always depends on communal effort, the author argues that emotion is the only nexus powerful enough to hold men together. The emotions that have united human societies in the past he analyzes into two categories: patriarchal, which makes for perpendicular ordering of individuals as in the Roman Catholic Church; and fratriarchal, or horizontal...
Avery A. Shaw, president of Denison University LL. D. S. Calvin Smith, specialist in heart diseases
...list of the colleges the dean visited follows: Allegheny College, Meadville, Penn.: College of Wooster, Wooster, Penn.; College of Wooster, Wooster, Penn.; Kenyon College, Cambier, Ohio; Denison University, Granville, Ohio: Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio; Butler University, Duke, lowa; Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana; Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana; De Pauw, Greencastle, Indiana; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; Heidelberg, College, Tiffin, Ohio; Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Ohio; Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio; University of Pittsburgh, Penn.; Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh Penn.; Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Penn...
Sirs: I wish to call to your attention a couple things you omitted in TIME, July 4. Under new presidents you mentioned our neighboring institution, Oberlin, but over looked the fact that Denison also has a new president, Dr. Avery A. Shaw. Also, under "Kudos" "honorary degrees" [TIME, June 27] you neglected to mention that Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, a colored institution, had given our Honor able Mayor, William Hale Thompson, an honorary degree, by proxy. THOMAS N. PARKS Denison '28 Granville, Ohio...
...wiry, serious-looking man of 32-Charles Duncan Chamberlin-a product of one of Iowa's many Main Streets, in the town of Denison. Early in life he developed a passion for tinkering with automobile engines. He studied electrical engineering at Iowa State University. He worked in a jewelry store. He married a pretty girl named Wilda Bogert. He went into aviation through the path traveled by so many young pilots-training in the Army during Wartime, barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining...