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...home of a Scottish Presbyterian aunt in Ontario. Before that he had lived with his Scottish father, a grocer of Saginaw, Mich. In Chicago young Stewart worked in a mission, gained a scholarship in the Moody Bible Institute, earned his way through Northwestern University by preaching in a Methodist church. A final religious shift brought him, in 1904, to St. Luke's Parish in Evanston...
When his father was head coach at Southern Methodist, young Jack Morrison refused to enroll there, said "I want to make good on my own." At Vanderbilt, he made the freshman team. Last year, when Morrison Senior went to Vanderbilt to coach, young Jack switched to Southern Methodist. Last week, benched by an ankle broken in the Fordham game the week before, young Morrison watched Southern Methodist beat Vanderbilt...
First tobacco Duke to betray an interest in higher education was old Washington ("Wash") Duke who in 1891 gave $100,000 in cigaret stocks to little Trinity College in Durham, N. C., when that Methodist institution was crusading against the weed he sold. Since then "Wash" Duke's progeny have made Trinity into a fabulously rich educational duchy. Late Son James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, who was permitted to rename it Duke University for $17,000,000 in cash, also gave Duke an eventual 32% of the income from his Duke Endowment, whose $53,000,000 portfolio holds not only...
...presidents Brown has had since 1764 were all Baptist ministers. A pious Methodist layman, big, bespectacled Educator Wriston was born in Laramie, Wyo., 47 years ago, went to Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), got a Ph.D. in History at Harvard, returned to teach at Wesleyan. During the War he had a desk job with the Connecticut State Council of Defense, became a full professor at Wesleyan before being called to Lawrence...
...Other major football scores last week: Alabama 7, Mississippi State 0; Army 27, Columbia 16; California 7, Oregon State 0; Fordham 7, Southern Methodist 0; Michigan State 7, Carnegie Tech 0; Navy 35, Virginia 14; Oregon 7, Stanford 7; Pitt 6, Ohio State 0; Purdue 35, Wisconsin 14; Southern California 24, Illinois 6; Yale 7, Penn 0; Holy Cross 7, Dartmouth...