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...been born in 1883 into a family in Groveland, Mass, which was said to have moved only five miles in 300 years. At Dartmouth he had taken his A.B.; at Clark University in Worcester (Mass.) his doctorate. Married to a Midwesterner, he went to North Carolina's Chapel Hill...
...Hill's 30 Northern professors, meeting occasionally for talk and drink, called themselves the "Damyankee Club." Psychologist Chase was a member. He was also, by 1919, the faculty's chairman, the college's acting dean, the university's acting president. In that year, the story goes, the trustees tired of trying to agree on a new president and turned the matter over to the faculty for a vote. Chief candidates were a Southerner and a Northerner. The Damyankee Club tactfully cast 30 votes for the Southerner. The other 170 professors voted for Harry Woodburn Chase...
North Carolina prospered under Dr. Chase's ten-year presidency and he received many an offer-like that of the presidency of the University of Oregon- promising better pay than his $10,000 a year at Chapel Hill. He accepted none until 1930, yielding then to the University of Illinois. With his wife, son and daughter he settled in the brick President's House overlooking some 1,556 acres of campus and cornfield. President Chase codified the University rules, gave the faculty more say, the deans less. He relaxed discipline enough to induce his 14,000 young Illini...
Their weekly Washington letter ($25 per year) is a careful reflection of Capital sentiment on fiscal questions, with pros & cons duly weighed. It is long on discussion, short on prediction. In general it takes a long-range view. A half-dozen staffmen maintain personal contacts on Capitol Hill and in. government departments. The letters are compiled in the Munsey Building...
...remaining public lectures will be "The Romance of Military Photography" by Captain D. M. Reeves, on March 8, "Mapping the Earth from the Air," by Captain B. C. Hill on March 22; and "From the Log of a Flying Photographer" by Lieutenant J. F. Phillips on April...