Word: kans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caravan consisting of a soft-seated motor bus and four automobiles will purr out of Winfield, Kan., on July 9, carrying 45 students of Southwestern College on a tour of 22 U. S. states, and two provinces of Canada. It will not be a mere rubber-necking tour, for Dr. William M. Goldsmith, who is in charge of the expedition and of Southwestern's biology department, has promised to instruct as well as point out. The students will visit Mount Vernon, Va., and Bunker Hill, Mass., as well as the Metropolitan Art Museum and the Museum of Natural History...
Pausing in Williamstown, Mass., last week, William Allen White of Emporia, Kan., uttered a geographical comment on U. S. education...
Elections. W. C. Coleman, wealthy lamp man of Wichita, Kan., was elected convention president for next year. Detroit was named 1928 convention city. The Rev. C. A. Brooks of Chicago was elected president of the American Baptist Foreign Society (missions), 1,585 'votes to 458 over J. Dabney Day of Los Angeles, fundamentalist candidate...
...Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan. Last month two Yale graduate students won Prix de Rome scholarships, in painting and sculpture (TIME, May 16). Last week the Prix de Rome judges decided the 1927 competition in architecture and again the winner was a Yale student-Homer Fay Pfeiffer of Kansas City, Kan., graduate of the University of Illinois. For his design of a small-city art museum, Mr. Pfeiffer can now spend three years at the American Academy in Rome with all expenses (about $7,000) paid...
Died. Stephen Adamczyn ("Steve Adams"), 24, Chicago lightweight boxer; in a bout with Champion Sammy Mandell; in Kansas City, Kan...