Word: madison
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...modern Athens is Madison, Wis.; nor is the University of Wisconsin's Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn a Socratic humbler for whom the hemlock cup awaits. But Wisconsin may look at Greece. To do so it opened in 1927 an Experimental College, whose 100-odd students wore Athenian owls on their blazers, gathered in earnest groups to study, first, the Greece of Pericles' Age, then America of the last century. Viewing the two whole, the students might learn to think and live wisely against their contemporary background. So thought Dr. Meiklejohn. To his insurgent College came farm-boys (of native and foreign...
Appointed to consider the Experimental College report, a committee from the Col lege of Arts & Sciences last April rejected its recommendations as too bulky, and not solving all difficulties. Still to be considered by Wisconsin is an alternative plan. If the Athenian owl is once more to figure at Madison, it may be somewhat as fol lows: When the financial situation justifies, let there be established a nonresidential, co-educational unit, with one or two hundred freshmen. During two years they will take one partially integrated course in civilizations or societies, taking also "Hill" courses in a ratio...
...title ever since Champion Jim Londos won it from him two years ago. The match between Shikat and Lewis was important because Champion Londos had been ordered by the New York State Boxing Commission to wrestle the winner; also because it was the first sports event held in Madison Square Garden's new stadium at Long Island City...
Wales Scholarship: A. J. Derbyshire, Utica, N. Y.; Jeffries Wyman Scholarships: W. G. Hamilton, Laclede, Mc.; H. M. Kaplan, Revere, Mass.; University Scholarships: Spencer Brown, Hartford, Conn.; N. B. DeNood, Cambridge, Mass,; Hans Fischel, New York City; Harold Gershinowitz, Brooklyn, N. Y.; J. A. Gutherie, Madison, Wis.; Leo A. T. Haak, Cambridge, Mass.; J. W. Havighurst, Jacksonville, Ill.; R. D. Humphrey, St. John, N. B., Canada; J. E. Johnson, Whitford, Pa.; K. B. Krishna Madras, India; C. G. Lalicker, Norman, Okla.; H. H. Lane, Barre, Vermont; Bernard Lemann, New Orleans, La.; D. W. Meiklejohn, Madison, Wis.; Brooks Otis Richmond, Indiana...
...president of the University of Pennsylvania ...... LL.D. Martin Thomas Manton, senior judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...... LL.D. Ogden Livingston Mills, Secretary of the Treasury ...... LL.D. Cuthbert Winfred Pound, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals ..... LL.D. Rev. Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman of the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church D.D. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect, historian of Manhattan Island. ..... Litt D. William Henry ("Popsy") Welch, Dean of U. S. Medicine, board president of Rockefeller Institute, professor of history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University ...... Sc.D. Reinald Werrenrath, baritone, N. Y. U. alumnus ...... Mus.D. Richard Whitney...