Word: finale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canny old Walter Dill Scott, having raised almost $40,000,000 in 19 years as Northwestern University's president, recently announced that he would go into well-earned retirement next June. Last week the final year of this phenomenal money-raiser was made memorable when, to his surprise, a man whom he scarcely knew dropped into the university's lap one of its biggest single gifts,* $6,735,000. The gift is to establish a Midwest institute of technology comparable to the East's M. I. T., the West's Caltech...
...final section comes back to the original key with a triumphant and stirring motif. In its glorification of academic freedom, it is the liberal spirit epitomized. Extra-mural activities and opinions are not to be disregarded. They are to be given special weight--but far from being discriminated against, the radical and unorthodox viewpoint will be courted. For Harvard must have diversity of opinion within her ranks. Harvard must have her communist...
...instance, it is likely that suggestions for definite measures in the future will be more readily met. Indeed, it is this aspect of the decision that is as cheering as any tangible achievement made toward alleviating this problem. For, excellent as these moves are, they cannot be regarded as final solutions. There yet remains to be solved the very thorny question of House selection...
Putting up a hard but losing fight, the Crimson malletmen bowed to West Point, 14 to 9 in the Squadron a Armory, New York, Last night. The victory places the soldiers in the final rounds of the National Intercollegiate Indoor polo championship...
...onetime automobile mechanic, lived with him a few months, sued him for divorce. Recently she has been living at El Cortez, swank San Francisco apartment hotel, under the name of Mrs. Howell. Last fall she bleached her hair platinum, left for fun in Miami, returned fortnight ago for her final decree from Mechanic Gay. When she got it, she promptly married Mr. Bradstreet, a onetime bartender, took him honeymooning in her yellow Packard...