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June 9?At DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.; at Drake University, Des Moines, Ia.; at Hobart College, Geneva. N. Y.; at University of Maine, Orono...
About 38 years ago, a young man from Vermilion County, Ill., just graduated from DePauw University, went up to Chicago to practice law. He was a stocky, cheery, vigorous lad and got along very well. Before long he met one of the bright young men who had been associated down East with Thomas Edison in his electric-lighting companies. This young man, a short, brisk little Britisher named Samuel Insull, organized a Chicago Edison Company. The lawyer from Vermilion County, whose name was Roy Owen West, became Mr. Insull's attorney and put some money into the company. When...
...that in all cases but two they ran up a total of over 20 points. Dartmouth was the highest with a score of 46 to its credit while Yale came second with 41. Purdue 15 Holy Cross 7 Dartmouth 46 Indiana 21 Penn 33 Brown 20 Yale 41 Depauw 0 St. Johns 0 Hobart 0 Kentucky 0 Swathmore 0 Albright 0 Bowdoin...
...hypothetical "crown of American oratory" is tenable only if the contests of the last few years are taken into account. Beloit College won the Interstate Contest in 1899 and again in 1902, 1903 and 1904-four times in six years, and three times consecutively, drawing far ahead of DePauw, the main contender up to that period. Beloit won again in 1908, and has had two victories since then, if memory serves me correctly. Wabash has a fair claim to such a "crown" for the present college generation, or decade, but its record still falls short of that set by Beloit...
Since tendering an honorable release and a $5,000 honorarium to Dr. Lemuel H. Murlin that he might assume the presidency of his alma mater, DePauw University, after a 13-year administration in Boston (TIME, Dec. 22, 1924), the trustees of Boston University have been casting about to refill the presidential chair over which they have dominion. Bishop William F. Anderson, prelate of the Boston area of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, has filled the chair pro tempore...