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...Louisiana, people who live along the bayous came into the little towns: French-speaking Cajuns with their families, alligator hunters, Chinese shrimp fishermen, muskrat trappers, oil drillers, smugglers. Almost every community bore the scars of some earlier storm. Children around Port Lavaca, Tex. had played in the ruins of Indianola (once considered a rival of New Orleans), which was blown off the map in 1886. In 1893, while dwellers on the shore of Barataria Bay south of New Orleans were dancing to celebrate the end of a storm, mountainous waves suddenly swept over, wiped out town and townspeople...
...downpour of reports concerning almost everything from the progress of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine to the results of a survey of the cotton velvet and velveteen industry. These were succeeded by a torrent of communications from such organizations as the Rotary Club of Indianola, Iowa (for increased monetization of silver and extension of agricultural markets by use of War Debts), the Alaska Native Brotherhood (protesting relief discrimination), the Bakers' Association of Puerto Rico (praying for the non-application of the flour processing tax), the Holy Name Society at Saginaw, Mich, (asking closer supervision...
...which the essential function is to serve a surrounding population of farmers, it is hard to discover what types of higher education are really in demand. Drake, organized as a nonsectarian, co-educational plant, began by borrowing the six-year-old Law School of Simpson College at nearby Indianola, Iowa, and absorbing a five-year-old Iowa Medical College. These, plus a Liberal Arts School, made Drake a "university." In 1882 a department of pharmacy was added. In 1887, the Iowa College of Physicians was affiliated and the next year a normal (teacher training) department was added...
Homer Houston Woods 2L, of Indianola, Iowa, was named Case Editor. He graduated from Simpson College in 1925. Nathan Leonard Jacobs 2L., of Bayonne, N. J., received the appointment of Note Editor. Jacobs graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1925. Moses Samuel Huberman '25 and 2L., of Portland, Maine, was appointed Book Review Editor...
...Harvard Business Review Board has announced the election of the following officers to serve for the current year: Chairman, Grant Keehn 2G.B., Hamilton College '21, of Kenilworth, Ill.; vice-chairman, Ernest Howard Crabbe 2G.B., Simpson College '18, of Indianola, Iowa; secretary-treasurer, Richard Newhall Johnson 2G.B., Harvard '22, of Newton Centre...