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...John H. MacCracken, the associate director of the American Council on Education, has declared this procedure unnecessary and has characterized its suddenness as "cruel and unworthy." The international significance of this regulation by the Secretary of Labor is set forth by Dr. MacCracken in a letter appearing on this page this morning. If this "regulation" is not to be "taken too seriously" it should be rescinded. It should be sufficient that the status of a bona fide guest-student is established. New York Times...
...sell Wartime "Jenny" planes, disposed of 50 at $5,000 each. Also he ran a flying school, went barnstorming, had his share of crack-ups from occasional foolhardiness. After directing the aviation program at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition (1926) he was appointed Chief of Air Regulation under William Patterson MacCracken Jr., the first Assistant Secretary of the Commerce Department's newly formed Aeronautics Branch. In that capacity he issued to Mr. MacCracken Pilot's License No. 1 after Orville Weight had modestly declined it because he no longer flew. Col. Young received in turn No. 2. When Assistant Secretary MacCracken...
...enough either in the management of their own collegiate affairs or in the determination of public opinion and public policies. If students are to be influential members of their civic communities after their graduation, they must learn to manage their own affairs as college students." ? President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College...
President MacCracken of Vassar notes the same tendency--every reform looking toward increased independence on the part of the students. He urges an even greater degree of management of their own affairs so that they may function "as people should." And it is his testimony, as well as that of President Aydelotte, that the student response under proper guidance is characterized by "self-control, reliability, persistence and tolerance." Like views have recently been expressed by Dean Gauss at Princeton. There are signs that our colleges and universities are moving to a higher plane of intellectual life. Those who have been...
Vassar's amiable President Henry Noble MacCracken contented himself with saying that no further action would be taken, that "the matter has been satisfactorily cleared up by publicity." President MacCracken had other things to do just then. A life mask had been taken of his face, from which was modelled a bulbous, theatrical mask. He was busy learning and polishing up Greek lines for the Hippolytus of Euripides. An able actor, Dr. MacCracken has appeared before in Vassar plays, has many times amused his students with burlesque speeches on Founder's Day. Last week he donned his mask and buskins...