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...value of idleness, painted a fine portrait of him that now hangs over the fireplace of his house in Westport, and told him the one most important thing he had learned in life: "How good people are." In 1911, in Carmel, Calif., he married charming Eleanor Kenyon, who bore him two sons (one is now a naval lieutenant...
American democracy is becoming a wingless glittering generality as a fact of the pervasive ignorance of the majority of the American people in matters of their government's operation," stated Visiting Lecturer in Government, A. Palmer yesterday. Palmer, professor of Political Science at Kenyon College, near Columbus, Ohio, cited the recent Gallup poll showing that only a third of United States citizens know their senators are, and advocated scale adult political education by unions...
Professor Palmer is an earnest Mainebred Bowdoin graduate who earned his Ph.D. at Harvard and served as instructor in Government here in 1933-34 before going to Kenyon. During his present visit to Harvard he is teaching Government 7a, "National Government of the United States...
...Kenyon: when 350 soldiers leave for active duty, there will be only 74 civilian students on the campus at Gambier, Ohio...
President Butterfield is the energetic son of the late Kenyon L. Butterfield. who was president of Rhode Island State College, Massachusetts State College and Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Wesleyan's new head was formerly the college's associate dean and acting president. Despite his own training at Cornell (B.A. 1927) and Harvard (Ph. D. 1936), he is a devoted small-college man. He believes that institutions of Wesleyan's size (about 700 students in peacetime) supply a social education that the big university has "tended to blot out." Says he: "We must . . . provide...