Word: depauw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Willie Long Bone learned English at a Government school, fathered a son who graduated from Drake University. Recently Professor Charles Frederick Voegelin of DePauw University discovered Willie on his 80-acre allotment in Oklahoma, brought him to Ann Arbor for the summer session. Willie has already made some 50 phonographic recordings of Delaware songs and tales. Between performances he walks around the University of Michigan campus in faded overalls, a floppy straw hat. For his singsonging he gets $2 a day and expenses...
...Hanna, true-blue" Republican who prospered as building contractor, ran a bank, read the classics, raised his family on a farm to develop their backbone. At 18 Charles Beard owned a country weekly, the graduation gift of his father, ran it at a profit for four years. At Methodist DePauw College his extracurricular activities included reporting for a Republican newspaper, electioneering for a Republican Senator, first exposure to the rising Progressive movement...
...staff of the museum during the past year has cooperated in research for the Bishop Museum of Hawaii; the Bureau of Science, Manila; the Catholic University of America; Depauw University; Estacion Experimental Agronomic, Cuba; the Field Museum of Natural History. Judson College, Rangoon, Burma; the New York Botanical Garden; the Smithsonian Institution; the University of California; the University of Michigan; The Yale School of Forestry; the Geological Survey of Brazil; and the American Museum of Natural History...
...World I Never Made, has just been published. The world James Farrell has lived in for 31 years is obviously one he had no hand in. He knew stinging poverty, quit college four years ago, worked as a gas station and cigar store attendant, attended night classes at DePauw now takes small part in re-making the world as is possible by but a Socialist. Still poor, James T. Farrell is charming, generous, and a clear thinking, clear seeing writers...
Said Trustee West: "The committee . . discussed every angle of DePauw . . . with the most satisfactory response. I am confident...