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Like many another Midwestern school, Kenyon College at tiny Gambier, Ohio was built by one of the many Eastern clergymen who swarmed into the Western territories after the War of 1812. Since then Kenyon has passed two stiff tests. First was to face down the animosity of its Ohio neighbors who, learning that Founder-Bishop Philander Chase had raised his first $30,000 from the British nobility, firmly believed that Kenyon was a British fort. That notion Kenyon scouted by graduating many a stanch U. S. citizen, including two members of the Lincoln Cabinet, Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton...
Average daily U. S. death rate is 3,800 persons. Many die far from home, have to be shipped back, which on railroads costs two first-class tickets per corpse. Last week many a Midwestern undertaker, just back from a convention at Springfield, Ill., was pondering this transport problem, wondering if he could turn it to his advantage. The convention had discussed using airplanes instead...
...Faces. To seasoned political correspondents who have watched hard-eyed, cigar-chewing Old Guardsmen from Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio run Republican conventions for years, the pre-convention scene's most striking aspect was the upsurge of new Midwestern faces. Roly-poly Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kas. Gazette and broad-beamed Managing Editor Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star headed the contingent of Kansas journalists and political amateurs who buzzed importantly around Landon headquarters. Mostly men in their 40's who had brought their homebody wives along, they were frankly delighted at finding themselves...
...glib enough at debating to help defeat Wellesley on one occasion. As a matter of fact, Vassarette McAfee is something of an academic cosmopolite. She was born on the campus of Park College at Parkville, Mo., founded by her grandfather. After Vassar she made a grand tour of Eastern & Midwestern male and female institutions teaching economics and sociology, wound up at Oberlin...
...rate it shows that we are living in a small world when college professors read meat advertisements of rural midwestern towns and make comment thereof in their official college papers. If our advertisements are good reading for folks in the "High-bat' East they must be alright for us of the "common" Midwest. And it also goes to show it pays to advertise. -Clipped from the "Sleepy Eye Progressive...