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...Chicago college was founded in 1856 with a land grant obtained by its first board chairman, famed Stephen Arnold Douglas, when he was U. S. Senator. But in 1886 it failed and died, lacking money. It was an entirely new institution that arose, six years later, out of three things: 1) Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed's desire to establish a Chicago college foundation; 2) The American Baptist Education Society's desire for a college somewhere; 3) John Davison Rockefeller's decision to found a college either in New York or Chicago. Mr. Rockefeller (always referred to since as "The Founder") gave...
...more present in the minds of Chicagoans than, for example, Columbia is in New Yorkers' minds or the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphians', was suggested by the list of people who accepted invitations to the Hutchins inaugural last week. It was a list much like the roster of first-nighters at the opening of Chicago's new Civic Opera House (TIME, Nov. 4, 18). Included were: President & Mrs. James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Walgreen (drug stores); Harold Leonard Stuart (Halsey, Stuart & Co., brokers) and his socialite sister; Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick (daughter of Founder Rockefeller...
...testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted such a ship at a dinner of New Haven's august Union League Club. Westcott & Mapes are now estimating their bids on the structural work of not one, but two such planes. The builders expect that the first will be wrecked by the ineptitude of navigators with such a mighty machine. The lessons they learn in wrecking the first plane they can apply to flying the second. Each will have at least a dozen 1,000-h. p. motors, will be able to carry 500 passengers, 104 crew...
...improve the custody and treatment of the mentally unbalanced. With the help of Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness' commonwealth fund, it has established child guidance clinics to prevent mental troubles, Twenty-seven other countries have taken up the movement. Their representatives will meet at Washington next May as the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene. President Hoover is honorary president of the congress. Dr. William Alanson White of St. Elizabeth Hospital, Washington, who spoke lengthily at the Manhattan dinner last week, is actual president. Banker Thomas William Lamont is treasurer...
Yale's President James Rowland Angell believes he has the sanest group of students in the world. That is because Yale was the first university to hire a staff psychiatrist. When a Yale man shows abnormality President Angell sends him to that psychiatrist, at present Dr. Clements Collard Fry. If Dr. Fry cannot straighten the student out, the boy is expelled. Only this month Yale dismissed two men, one a mental case, the other a sensual one. So President Angell boasted at the 20th anniversary dinner of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel...