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Seeded fifth in a field of sixteen colleges, Elton McNeil '49, and David Funk, NROTC, placed in the quarter-finals of the West Point debating tournament Saturday. Arguing both sides of the question of compulsory military training, the Crimson squad defeated Yale and Penn State before losing to the top-seeded West Point team, which went on to beat Iowa and Annapolis to win the tournament for the second straight year...
...seven brothers, including 1) Harold G. Moulton, 61, Ph.D., eight times LL.D., author of a dozen-odd books on economics and finance, president of the Brookings Institution in Washington; 2) Forest Ray Moulton, 73, Ph.D., LL.D., twice Sc.D., secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; 3) Elton J. Moulton, 57, M.A., Ph.D., onetime dean of the graduate school and now head of the mathematics department at Northwestern University; 4) Earl L. Moulton, 66, onetime public-school teacher and now president of two companies; and 5) Vernon V. Moulton, president of an insurance company and a trustee...
Professor Perry believes that the ideas and ideals of America's founders are not obsolete in 1944. He believes with Stanford's Elton Trueblood (The Invention of America) that "the invention of America was more .important than the discovery of America." His purpose is to reconstruct the thought of the Puritans, to show its embodiment in American institutions, American government, American democracy. If writing can be "insipid with veracity," he says, "I am willing to be as insipid as necessary in order to be as veracious as possible. ... It is part of my purpose to rebuke cynics...
Following an investigation in nearly all the major aircraft plants of Southern California, the report features contributions by Professors Elton Mayo, George F. F. Lombard, John B. Fox, and Jerome F. Scott. While the men concede that the financial loss in labor turnover and absenteeism resulting from neglect of worker morale can be over-looked by firms enjoying wartime prosperity, they assert that the defect may prove fatal to many companies in the highly competitive period expected after hostilities cease...
...Elton Ellison, 20, of Rails, Tex. has made the furrows of a farm look like a highway to business success. The Future Farmers of America, meeting in their Kansas City convention this week, gave young Ellison the title of "Star Farmer of America" and $500 prize money. For Farmer Ellison, recently inducted into the Army, this prize money was just another cash token of an operating success that started when he was 13. By then he had saved up enough money to buy a pig. A little later he borrowed money to finance an eight-acre cotton patch; paid...