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...right people, he nonetheless erred by snubbing a Washington lumberman named Roland H. Hartley. In 1926 Dr. Suzzallo lost his job; Hartley had become Governor and got even. Under Dr. Suzzallo the University had grown, but grown expensive. Under Governor Hartley and the University's next president, Matthew Lyle Spencer, the University experienced sharp economies, a re-organization last summer (TIME, Aug. 8). Stiffer entrance requirements were designed to keep it from competing with the vocational State College in the Eastern part of Washington. This pleased opponents of mass-education; it pleased agrarian East Washington. But taxpaying Western parents...
Through pedagogs' dreams flash the golden names of colleges which are currently hunting presidents: Harvard, Princeton, Virginia, Illinois, Toledo. Changes are expected at Washington; its President Matthew Lyle Spencer submitted a perfunctory resignation last month. Andover is looking for a headmaster. Last week another name went on the list, with the announcement of the resignation of President Thomas Franklin Kane of the University of North Dakota, who approaches 70 and a Carnegie Foundation pension. A Latin and Greek scholar, Dr. Kane graduated from De Pauw and Johns Hopkins. Before going to North Dakota in 1918, he was president...
Score--Jayvees S. Freshmen 6 1-2. Goals--Oliver 4, Benson 3, Davis 2, McGuckin, Gerry, Jay, Prentice, Pony, Fouls--Freshmen 1-2. Time--six 5-minute chukkers. Referee--Lyle Phillips...
Washington's reorganization, as announced by President Matthew Lyle Spencer who is kept well under control by the Hartley-appointed Board of Regents, is from 13 schools and colleges into four: the College of Arts & Sciences, College of Technology, Law School, Graduate School. Washington's Forestry School is considered the best west of the Mississippi. Its reduction to a department is expected to result in decreased enrollment, ultimate elimination. Other schools or colleges to be eliminated or consolidated: Music, Home Economics, Fisheries, Fine Arts, Journalism, Library, Nursing. Business Administration. The Deans of Men and Women become "personnel officers...
Died. James Lyle Mackay, first Earl of Inchcape, 79, British banking & shipping tycoon, board chairman of famed Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., vice president of Suez Canal Co.; after a general breakdown; aboard his yacht Rover, off Monte Carlo. His family withheld the news of his death until the London Stock Exchange closed. A poor Scottish boy, he rose to wealth & power in Indian trading firms. Branching out into Far Eastern shipping, Lord Inchcape became an authority on Oriental trade, negotiated Britain's basic commercial treaty with China in 1902. His daughter Elsie was lost in 1928 when...