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During these weeks, Dr. Max Macon, Ph. D., Research Professor of Mathematical Physics, went about his recondite tasks as usual at the University of Wisconsin. At the close of the college year, he put in order the minutes of faculty meetings as a good secretary should. An earnest student, he devoted his increased leisure to redoubled efforts among differential equations, the calculus of variations, physical applications of mathematical theory. A skilled inventor, he answered correspondence concerning the Mason hydrophone, by which United States and British warships detected submarines during the War. A good provider and thoughtful husband, he packed...
Meantime, over in Macon County, a certain Farmer-Legislator, J. W. Butler, simple and unassuming, toiled in his fields with plow and harrow, not greatly concerned that the bill into which he had written the faith of his fathers had been seized upon as the classic foe of intellectual freedom...
...your issue of Feb. 16, on Page 17, under "Education," you give the five largest colleges exclusively for women. The last one on the list is Mt. Holyoke with 722 students. Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Va., is exclusively for women and its enrollment for 1923-24 was 772 and for 1924-25 is 816. A restatement of the facts would be appreciated...
Southward, Vanderbilt wrenched this way and that at the Quantico Marines but could not break a 13-to-13 tie. Alabama descended vigorously upon Mississippii, 51 to 0. Virginia, a promising combination, subdued Randolph-Macon...
...answer is an answer, in politics. William G. McAdoo campaigning in Georgia, had just completed a speech at Macon. An inquiring Georgian rose and asked: "How do you stand on the Ku Klux Klan...