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...question debated was: "Resolved: "That enrolment should be limited by raising the standards of the present system of competitive entrance examinations." The winning Freshman team was, composed of C. H. Johnston, L. S. King, D. L. Dickson, and W. D. Morton, while the losers were D. W. Chapman, J. R. Cherry, L. J. Fain, and F. J. Otis...
...following were retained: Seniors, W. T. Howe, J. S. Kaufman, R. M. Morrison, and A. C. Poletti; Sophomores, C. C. Craig, T. E. Finley, A. G. King, and W. C. McFerron; Freshmen, Team 1. D. W. Chapman, J. R. Cherry, D. L. Dickson, and F. J. Otis; Freshmen, Team 2, 1. J. Fain. C. H. Johnston, L. S. King, and W. D. Morton...
Mathematician Wins. A $1,000 prize, for the most valuable contribution to science presented at the current meetings, was awarded to Dr. Leonard E. Dickson, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. His achievement was a general mathematical theory including as special cases certain fundamental branches, such as quaternions and vector analysis. It is comparable in importance to the so-called calculus of Ricci and Levi Civita, which formed the mathematical basis for Einstein's general relativity theory. Unfortunately, these theories are so abstruse that only the trained mathematician can penetrate their mysteries. Laymen must take on faith...
...Dickson, aged 49, studied at Texas, Chicago, Leipzig, Paris, is internationally known. He is the only American mathematician who is a corresponding member of the French Academy of Science...
YOUTH ARRESTED, ADMITS SEEING KILLING OF EMMA DICKSON...