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Today Bethune-Cookman* is a four-year, co-ed college-with 450 students and an $800,000 campus. The emphasis is still on vocational training. Like Booker T. Washington, President Emeritus Bethune thinks Negro education's first job is to teach job skills to Negroes. (Most of Bethune-Cookman's 2,350 graduates are teachers...
...lines of a world-weary hound, and hair like an aurora borealis. He is Professor Albert Einstein, author of the Theory of Special Relativity, the Unified Field Theory, and a decisive expansion of Max Planck's Quantum Theory, onetime director of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Professor Emeritus at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, onetime Swiss citizen, onetime Enemy No.1 of Hitler's Third Reich, now a U.S. citizen...
...Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University's president emeritus, now 84 and blind, took no active part in the Commencement exercises for the first time in more than 40 years. Photographed in his new role of bystander, he was a study in dignity and academic majesty...
...Snow, Rice & Boyd; and William G. Saltonstall '28, Exeter, N. H., newly-named principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. The sixth Overseer, Rev. Charles W. Gilkey '03, Chicago, associate dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, will serve for two years, filling the unexpired term of the late President-emeritus William Allan Neilson of Smith College...
Died. Dr. Patty Smith Hill, 78, pioneer in progressive nursery-school and kindergarten education, professor emeritus of education at Columbia University, composer (with her sister in 1893) of Good Morning to All,* which the U.S. sings as Happy Birthday to You; in Manhattan...