Word: mendota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Summer's peace on the shores of Lake Mendota (Madison, Wis.) is broken by the fall of hammers and the whine of planes. New dormitories are arising, where a year from this autumn the first fruit of the administration of President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin will burgeon. It is to be an experimental college starting with 125 freshmen-all men-voluntarily enrolled to undertake two years of "project study" under the direction of Professor Alexander Meiklejohn and a special faculty. In 1928 another 125 freshmen will be admitted. At the end of its second experimental year...
Farmer S. J. Letendre of Mendota, Minn., paused by his barn one afternoon last week to observe the erratic flight of an airplane coming along low over the fields from the windy northwest. It was swerving and teetering as if its courage were buffeted away. Two small pieces fell from it. It twirled reluctantly, then dropped like a shot bird. Farmer Letendre extricated from the wreck the remains of Pilot Elmer Lee Partridge. Partridge had just left Minneapolis on the inaugural southbound trip of an air mail service between there and Chicago.* Three of the five other pilots flying...
...election of officers of the Staple's Club for next year took place last night. William Churchill Hammond Jr., of Holyoke, was elected President, Charles Gustaf Ramsay Leigh of Petersburg, Va., Vice-President, Howard Stephen Chase, of San Jose, Cal., Secretary, and Allan Wylie Walter, of Mendota, Ill., Treasurer...
...representatives of Chicago's Faculty, which contains such men as Chamberlin, Michelson, Hale and Millikan, Dr. Mason envisioned Chicago as the cultural and intellectual center of the world. Later, at his home on the heights overlooking Lake Mendota, he discoursed upon productive scholarship...