Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...additional recommendation for Boston and Cambridge--for Harvard is now quite as much a Boston institution as it is a Cambridge institution. But to Bostonians it seems, a queer idea that during the experimental period of the new fellowships all the holders must come from the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Why should New England be shut out, even for a time, from this opportunity? Or Massachusetts at the least? And why Minnesota rather than Iowa? Iowa is much more the child of Massachusetts than is Minnesota. Iowa is also much less foreign in population than...
Harvard and the University of Chicago last week could thank a geographer-geologist from Indiana University for calling the country's attention to the size and importance of their respective staffs of research scientists...
Harvard's faculty ranks first in the possession of outstanding scientists, according in a survey recently made by Professor Stephen S. Vicher of Indiana College. The survey determined that 58 Harvard men have been chosen as leaders in their field from 20,000 scientists listed in "American Men of Science" during the last 12 years...
...Iowa and Purdue. It was not a crucial game, since little less than a miracle could stop Purdue, which has passed the toughest part of its schedule, from winning the Big Ten Championship. Its team, about the same as last year's, has five scoring players, all from Indiana - a state so basketball-mad that business practically stands still during the finals of the annual tournament of 800 high schools. The crack shot is Norman Cottom, a sandy-haired forward who has scored 63 points in six games and bids strong to finish as high scorer of the Conference...
...Indiana, Dillinger faced a mandatory death penalty for the murder of Policeman O'Malley. In Ohio, Clark, Makley and Pierpont were wanted for killing Sheriff Jess L. Sarber when they delivered Dillinger from jail. Illinois had a variety of unpleasant charges against the quartet. Hence, they announced that they preferred being extradited to Wisconsin, where only a bank robbery charge awaited them. However a smart Indiana prosecutor swooped into town, extradited Dillinger, loaded him into an airplane and flew him, manacled and guarded by police, back to East Chicago...