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...Eureka (Ill.) College, founded in 1855 by the elders of the local Disciples of Christ, was the victim of the Depression. In spite of every economy, it could not afford to keep up its library or replace its retiring professors. It even had to pay part of its faculty in scrip. In 1936 the North Central Association finally withdrew its accreditation. Today, reports President Ira W. Langston, the yearly deficit is still $20,000, and though the library is climbing up to par and the college has about the proper proportion of Ph.D.'s on its faculty, it cannot...
...Like Eureka, 129-year-old Shurtleff College in Alton, Ill. lost its accreditation m 1936. This, says President Roland E. Turnbull, "is something like not having a union label on your product, or the approval seal of the fire underwriters." A Shurtleff coed cannot join a national sorority or be a member of the American Association of University Women. Even worse, the college has already had to resign from the fund-raising Associated Colleges of Illinois. Yet Baptist Shurtleff has managed to make considerable contribution over the years. Among its alumni four college presidents, 112 college and university teachers...
Among them was the Trimountain Club, which the nine defeated by the odd-sounding score of 59 to 32. In 1866, a year after Crimson baseball began organized competition, the squad met Eureka. The final score...
Trial Run. In Eureka. Mont., Pat Wager, candidate for town constable, went on a campaign tour of several bars, decided he was as good as elected, jailed three citizens, landed in jail himself for disturbing the peace...
...person at Weeks's office and left their lavishly illustrated '54 sales brochures. Wrote one man on the calling card he left with a Buick folder: 'After reading the TIME article, I decided to conduct a personal sales campaign.' A telegram from one dealer in Eureka, Calif, tried flattery: 'A man in your position should definitely buy a Nash "Airflyte." ' A dealer from Indianapolis wired his direct pitch, making traditional use of the salesman's superlative: 'I herewith ask you to buy America's greatest car for value, power, economy...