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...Present day students having no definite purpose, are essentially drifters, products of economic ease who live on the work of others," stated Dr. G. A. Coe, Professor of Religious Education at Columbia, at the third Intercollegiate Parley on American College Education held last week-end at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WESLEYAN CONFERENCE VIEWS STUDENT WANTS | 12/7/1926 | See Source »

...fact that Woodrow Wilson, idealist, man of destiny, political philosopher, was once an eager football strategist. In 1878 he coached a Princeton eleven which defeated both Yale and Harvard and won the first of the "Big Three" championships (see p. 32). Then he went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., officially as a history professor-but little time was lost in making him a member of the football advisory board. Soon Wesleyan teams began to baffle their cumbersome rush-line opponents with crafty off-tackle plunges, with neat crisscross plays. People began to talk of a lean history professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strategist | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

Forty years ago, in Middletown, N. Y., a farmer named Lewis C. Andrews found a turtle in a field and whiled away a pleasant hour cutting his initials and the date "1886" in the turtle's mottled back. Last week a neighbor, Levi Sinsabaugh, found the turtle in a field, the letters, the date, still clear in his back. Farmer Andrews placed the reptile under a wicker chair, called neighbors in to witness his achievement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

ARTHUR B. GREEN Middletown, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 3, 1926 | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...college papers were the first to speak. The Yale News, the Dartmouth, the Princetonian, and the undergraduate papers at Amherst and Tufts, have all taken stands similar in their principal points to that of the CRIMSON. The logical outcome of such discussions was the Middletown platform endorsed by delegates from 23 colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FOOTBALL SYMPOSIUM | 12/16/1925 | See Source »

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