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...purpose, among others, of revising its list of "ineligible" universities " colleges. The institutions which spot this list are the black sheep of U. S. education, and the A. A. U. P. will not accept new members from their faculties. The "ineligible" pen contained five such black sheep. DePauw (Greencastle, Ind.), Brenau (Gainesville, Ga.) and Harris Teachers College of St. Louis were penned up because their respective presidents had arbitrarily dismissed professors-in most cases outspoken liberals. So was Rollins (Winter Park, Fla.), which considers itself to have been shabbily treated, contends that an experimental, progressive college like itself should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blackest Sheep | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...glory, on thy people pour thy power; Crown thine ancient Church's story, bring her bud to glorious flower. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage. For the facing of this hour, for the facing of this hour. Thanks to Dean Robert Guy Mc-Cutchan of DePauw University, Methodists are given some tunes new to the hymnal. Against strong opposition, the commission voted to include Auld Lang Syne and the famed Irish Londonderry Air for hymns beginning It singeth low in every heart and Above the hills of time the Cross is gleaming. The broad, soaring principal theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hymns for 8,000,000 | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...true that his first political campaign, conducted in his native Indiana when he was still at the unripe age of 19, consisted of 28 stump speeches in support of William ennings Bryan. But he did not choose to imitate Bryan. In 1901, aged 25, having graduated from DePauw University, Elmer Thomas started for the lands of the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes, to "make the run" when the Great White Father threw open Indian Territory to his white children. A few months later Elmer Thomas hung his shingle over the doorway of a frame house in the frontier town of Lawton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Turn of the Flood | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Born: Winchester, Ind., Nov. 2, 1864. Career: Son of a country lawyer, he was educated at DePauw University where he played baseball, got his A.B. in 1886. Admitted to the Indiana bar next year, he began practice with his father. In 1892 he married Flora Miller who bore him three sons, one daughter. He removed to Rushville (pop. 5,709) in 1893 where he has made his home ever since. He joined the Elks, made lodge speeches and friends, drifted into politics. In 1894 he was first elected to the House of Representatives where with one interruption he served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1932 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

Ohio State university has but recently installed a new senate government. The University of Wisconsin is considering changes which will cure the ills existent under a system of the old school. Students at DePauw are criticizing their government and agitation is being carried on to obliterate politics. The Daily Northwestern runs as a platform plank on its editorial page the program, "Develop a strong, central student governing body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Young Lochinvar | 2/26/1932 | See Source »

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