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...undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin are very much annoyed by the successful detective methods of Prof. Scott H. Goodnight, the dean of men. The incident occurred on Dec. 7, but the controversy was not precipitated until another member of the faculty. Prof. William Ellery Leonard, recently made public a letter which he had written to President Glenn Frank criticising the dean's procedure. The dean, it seems, heard that one of the girl students was spending the night in an apartment occupied by her flance, also a student. He went to the apartment early the next morning and found...
...very cold. Water froze on the hose lines, smeared the furnace-like structure with tentacles of ice. Without rubbers, the President's feet got wet and cold. At the height of the conflagration he remembered his little guests in the White House, returned to bid them a ceremonious goodnight. For three hours the fire burned, gutting the building, ruining its contents with water and smoke...
...soldier of many medals and a onetime Prime Minister of the Imperial Son of Heaven, grizzled, rheumatic Baron Giichi Tanaka, 66, last week entered his Tokyo house late one night after a state banquet. To the house boy who helped him off with his shoes the courtly Tanaka bade goodnight with disarming cheerfulness, eased his rheumatic limbs into bed, fell immediately and heavily to sleep. Waking suddenly in the night, he summoned the house boy who roused the Baron's family. To them the Baron quietly announced that he felt "very sick," clutched at his heart, collapsed. Before dawn...
...went over to the General Motors Building to telegraph Mr. Hoover and say goodnight to Mr. Raskob. John William Davis was there, smiling. "We're used to it," said Mr. Davis. "Maybe 25 years from...
...Russell: "I feel insulted that President Frank did not communicate courteously with me but caused the students to cancel the meeting. Dean Goodnight refused to allow the students to invite me to dinner. I was treated as an intellectual and social outcast...