Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Careers: His first career, as a farmer on the Texas plains, was climaxed when, aged 13, he picked 413 Ib. of cotton in one day. His second began when he gave up teaching philosophy at his alma mater, the University of Texas, to study philosophy at the University of Chicago. In the next eight years he won a full professorship, a reputation among philosophers for the originality, skepticism, intellectual geniality of his editorship of the International Journal of Ethics. His third career, as publicist and politician, blossomed around the University's radio Round Table which he helped found...
...eventually found it hanging in one of the Davies' 13 bathrooms. Last week, if the clerk happened to be in Madison, Wis., he would have searched for it in more public quarters on the University of Wisconsin campus. The gift of Ambassador Davies to his alma mater last year (TIME, May 31, 1937), it formed part of a collection of 122 pre-revolutionary and contemporary paintings and rare 18th to 18th-Century icons taken out of Russia after elaborate negotiations, insured for a reputed sum of $100,000 and called priceless. Visitors to the first public showing...
...Clubs and Director of the Harvard Alumni Association was recently announced, people glanced at his record and said it was a "good thing," "the right man," of made some other automatic comment. Yet the study of that record brings every college man to a consideration of what his alma mater is worth...
Smart-looking, Idaho-born Inez Callaway, known to the 3,000,000 readers of New York's tabloid Daily News as Nancy Randolph, last week traveled out to her alma mater at Columbia, Mo., to tell the conferees at Missouri University's Annual Journalism Week what it takes to be a Manhattan society reporter...
...Harvard songs, sung by the University at the end, are of the kind as well, for on this occasion words are sung in unison by a whole group which rarely gets together at one time to hymn their alma mater. To the Glee Club, for welding the community into a unit and for filling the night with song, go the blessings of the College...