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...years these words from the testament of Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel have been so many thorns in the flesh of the Fairmount Park Art Association of Philadelphia. Plump, exacting Mrs. Samuel died in 1913, leaving the association $765,000 to execute her row of dreamed-of statues along the Schuylkill's east bank. Mrs. Samuel's dream, however, gave the association the willies. They thought it smacked of waxworks...
...your information, the Municipal University of Wichita, a coeducational institution, was created by a referendum vote of the citizens of Wichita in April, 1926, and established around the nucleus of old Fairmount College, a Congregational school, founded...
...creation of a municipally owned university was accomplished under the leadership of Dr. John D. Finlayson, then president of Fairmount College and later chancellor of the University of Tulsa. From an enrollment of about 400 in 1927, the University of Wichita has grown rapidly, having an enrollment of over 1,500 in 1936. The equipment and plant have kept pace with this growth...
...work to develop his physique, rose every morning at 6, exercised for two hours in Fairmount Park. Now he boasts that his chest measurements are the same as Pugilist Joe Louis' "although I am shorter and 30 pounds lighter...
Since no manager would touch it this year, the orchestra men appointed a committee of their own, got Curtis Bok to be president, chipped in what they could, pledged themselves to give a full season even if they had to play to the shrubs and trees of Fairmount Park. They scheduled opera in English, Gilbert & Sullivan, "pop" and symphony concerts, ballets by Fokine, Humphrey-Weidman and Philadelphia's Montgomery and Littlefield dancers. They promised to honor unused tickets left over from last summer's fiasco...