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...Association. Director today of the Association's Division of Educational Measures and Consultant is Dr. Max Joseph Exner. Austrian-born 60 years ago, Dr. Exner was at 19 an expert gymnast, took a Y. M. C. A. course in physical education, became physical education director at Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.). Meanwhile he took college courses, studied medicine, took his M. D. degree in 1906. As director of sex education for the Y. M. C. A., he went to the border during the U. S.-Mexican strife in 1915, reported on Prostitution in Army camps. His reports worried people, proved...
Biographer Bradford recalled that ten years ago Professor Ambrose White Vernon established at Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.) "the first distinct department of biography in this country and so far as I know in the world." Few years later President Ernest Martin Hopkins invited Professor Vernon to Dartmouth to conduct a similar department there. "Professor Vernon's interest and his instruction in biography do not turn upon what is merely gossipy and superficial, but upon the points of deeper significance. . . . Some of the most promising undergraduates have shown an eager interest and in many cases have gone out to propagate...
...Charity what the serious Press insisted upon calling a $75,000,000 to $100,000,000 fortune. Of that it seemed, at first glance, that Nanking Theological Seminary and four other institutions! were each to get 17 1/2%. And the famed Moody-founded Northneld schools of East Northfield, Mass., were to get 11½% which looked like $1,000,000?ample to complete its current endowment campaign...
Quick to get facts, Northfield's President Elliott Speer was the first to ascertain that the estate had been grossly over-estimated in popular notion, that it would come to scarcely more than $30,000,000 and that the residue, to be divided on a percentage basis, might not be more than $20,000,000. Thus, Northfield's share would be only $300,000 and Nanking's about $3,500,000. Even so, it was a huge sum for a theological seminary in China (raising deep questions as to its proper use); but it was not the golden vision which...
...Children, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., 35 shares; New York Society for Relief of Ruptured & Crippled, 35 shares; Nanking (China) M. E. Theological Seminary, 35 shares; M. E. Church Home, Manhattan, 4 shares; National Society for Prevention of Blindness, 5 shares; S. P. C. A. of New York, 5 shares; Northfield Schools, Mass., 3 shares; National Kindergarten Association, 2 shares; Dobbs Ferry (N. Y.) Hospital Association, 2 shares; Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, 2 shares; S. P. C. A. of Massachusetts, 1 share; M. E. Church, Irvington, N. Y., 1 share...