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...Milton E. Pharr was found by Nessfeness in a segregated high school in Gastonia, N.C., where his father is a janitor, his mother a cleaning woman. After a poor start at DePauw University (one B, two Ds, an F), Milton raised his marks to four As, a B, a C, made the varsity baseball team and became president of the literary magazine...
Methodist Minister Hutchinson (with a D.D. from both DePauw and Garrett Biblical Institute) joined the Century in 1924, after five years as editor of the China Christian Advocate in Shanghai, and ever since has been showing journalists what a minister can do in their field and ministers what a journalist can do in theirs. He has had his share of globetrotting; his reports on Europe and other matters in LIFE, the Saturday Review and other magazines made him known to many readers who never even see a copy of the Century. His crisp, forceful editorials, his continued analysis...
...same time, J. William Doolittle, Jr. 3L, a graduate of DePauw and Wheaton, III., was elected treasurer, and George T. Roumell 3L, a Michigan graduate from Grosse Pointe, Mich., was voted Secretary...
However, there were plenty of cases. At Indiana's DePauw University, 230 students out of 1,800 reported sick within 24 hours. The university shut down for a week. While state health officials labored to confirm the disease's identity, students were in no doubt. They dubbed it "gaumboo" and sometimes added a coughed syllable for emphasis...
Kermit Morrison of DePauw University, six-letter athlete, announced that he had reached a decision; it is going to be the ministry for him. "I can look around the room and count eight men who have made the same decision I have, and there's not one sissy among them . . . It's an opportunity to take something to humanity, and not something from...