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Small Hobart College (enrollment: 334) at Geneva, N. Y. is famed for its all-time record of 27 straight football defeats (1928-31), as the purported birthplace of the drinking song Solomon Levi* as a modestly endowed, progressive liberal arts institution with more graduates in Who's Who than any school of its size. Founded by an Episcopal bishop in 1822, Hobart has had 14 presidents, all Episcopal clergymen. Its "coordinate" college for women, William Smith, has shared the last three. Last week these educational twins formally installed a new president, neither clergyman nor alumnus but a Dartmouth English...
...Written in the '80s, according to legend, by Undergraduate Edwin K. Buttolph, who took the name Levi from his pious schoolmaster father, Solomon from Father Buttolph's partner in the Cleveland Female Seminary...
With Robert Levi '38 presiding as temporary chairman, a temporary executive committee was formed. The members elected to it were Hume Dow '38, William T. Dean, Jr. '37, David E. Feller '38, Robert S. Levy '38, Basil Pollitt '40, Robert R. Ross '37, Boris Yuchu '38, and Margaret Harriss, Radcliffe...
This department also recorded the lectures of the noted visiting physicists who addressed the Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences. Including the talks of Robert A. Millikan, Arthur Holly Compton, Tullio Levi-Civita, Frank B. Jewett, and many other famous scientist, these records will be added to the Cruft Laboratory, which some times ago started a collection of scientific phonograph records...
...Tullio Levi-Civita, of the University of Rome, Rational Mechanics...