Word: electives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asterisk after the number of the course indicates that undergraduates must get the written consent of the instructor in order to elect...
...closed corporation. Capital will be provided by sale of $500,000 of common stock and $7,000,000 of preferred, a good deal of which will be bought by certain of the 17 remaining Morgan partners. But all the common stock, which carries the sole right to elect directors, will be held exclusively by the executives and employes of the new corporation, thus insuring its complete independence...
...impressed with the future of technology was Asa Packer of Mauch Chunk, richest man in Pennsylvania, that in 1866 he founded Lehigh University. Spread over a hillside above smoky Bethlehem, Lehigh has always made a specialty of engineering. Founder Packer would have beamed last week upon the election as Lehigh's president of Clement Clarence Williams, 53, dean of the College of Engineering at University of Iowa, once an active civil engineer. Succeeding Dr. Charles Russ Richards, President-elect Williams will take office October...
...stranger to Lehigh, President-Elect Williams has known some of the older faculty members since he worked for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad 25 years ago. A graduate of Southern Iowa Normal School, he turned to teaching before the War, quit to supervise a government explosives plant at Nitro, Va. At University of Illinois, where he was head of the Engineering department from 1922 to 1926, he built one of the best hydraulic laboratories in the U. S. During his Iowa deanship, he built a television station. Twice married, he likes to hike with his three children, teaches a Sunday...
McGill. As the S. S. Duchess of Richmond steamed up the Gulf of St. Lawrence one day last week, Canadian newshawks crowded around a hatch on the top deck. On the hatch cover sat Arthur Eustace Morgan, British principal-elect of McGill University, dangling his long legs and rattling off interviews in English and French. To Englishmen Mr. Morgan is well known as the man who built up University College, Hull, from nothing in seven years. Aware that some Canadians dislike to see an Englishman getting Canada's biggest educational plum, he promised: "I shall keep . . . my mouth closed...