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University of Chicago. The Maroon, taking issue with President Robert Maynard Hutchins, was emphatically interventionist last year, still...
...years, ever since Hutchins began his campaign to put the study of philosophy ahead of the study of science, the university has been in a constant intellectual furor. Students staged a running debate in the Daily Maroon on the topic: Facts v. Ideas; professors posted arguments on bulletin boards. So preoccupied with intellectual matters is Chicago that when the university dropped out of intercollegiate football last year and abandoned big Stagg Field to schoolboys, students and alumni uttered scarcely a whimper...
...jazz band on its official concert course. Colgate made some pretence that the Duke's performance was-ah-cultural. But to 1,450 students, faculty members and townspeople who crowded the chapel, no such excuse was necessary. The audience would have rocked the joint, had not the Colgate Maroon warned beforehand that stamping might jar loose the three-and-a-half-ton ceiling of the chapel...
...iron. Europe's major coal field lies roughly in a great arc. Using Oslo as a centre it is possible to describe that arc with a compass. It begins in the Scottish Lowland and ends in Upper Silesia. On it or close to it are strewn the maroon areas of mining districts and the red areas of manufacturing-the English Midlands, South Wales, northern France, Belgium's Sambre-Meuse Valley, Holland's Limburg, the Saar, the Ruhr, middle Germany. Lesser mining and manufacturing areas are scattered in other quarters of Europe but neither in area...
According to the "Daily Maroon," Chicago University campus newspaper, Professor Charles E. Merriam of the Chicago Political Science Department is Harvard-bound. The name of the sixty-six year old professor is reported to have been submitted to the Harvard Corporation, but the "Maroon" indicates that no final action has yet been taken...