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...Antioch, Ashland, Bluffton, Capital, Defiance, Denison, Findlay, Heidelberg, Hiram, Kenyon, Lake Erie, Mount Union, Muskingum, Notre Dame College, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan, Otterbein, Western and Wooster...
Swollen Waters. The change had no more effect on racing conditions. The night before the race, a 5-in. downpour started flash floods on the tributary Muskingum which flows into the course a furlong below the scheduled starting line. By race time, 60-ft. logs and huge masses of debris were sweeping down the Muskingum and onto the course. Even before the downpour struck, Ulbrickson, whose Washington crew had drawn an inside lane, complained that the Muskingum flow "hits you broadside like the wash from a big boat...
...learned symposia was the fabulous history of the University of Chicago itself-a story of three men: William Rainey Harper, John D. Rockefeller and Robert Hutchins. Like the university he founded, Harper was a prodigy. Born in an Ohio log cabin, he read the Bible at three, graduated from Muskingum College at 13, taught Hebrew at Muskingum at 16, got a Ph.D. at Yale at 18, was a full professor at 20. Harper made the study of Hebrew, theretofore deader than Sanskrit, a national fad. He started Hebrew summer classes, institutes, correspondence courses, soon had so much mail that...
...Earl J. Jones, a drum-chested, muscular, aggressive man, turned up in Zanesville, Ohio.* Without much visible financial backing, he went into the coal-mining business, presently owned several mines, including one of the most modern, all-mechanical excavations in the U. S. To transport his coal along the Muskingum River he bought a barge company...
...Zanesville News plant was modern and complete, cost $250,000. With latest photographic and engraving equipment and brand-new unit tubular twin-12 presses, it was capable of printing the News in color throughout. Trucks were ready to deliver it daily and Sunday to every home in Muskingum County. And thorough Earl Jones was prepared to spend money to put it over...