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Although they had never seen the costume before, Northwestern University's students did not need to look twice to identify the figure that stalked across their campus last week, wearing an enormous Chinese otter fur cap, a great Chinese otter coat and Chinese "alley cat" fur gloves. Only one man on any U. S. campus would dress like that. Exclaiming "Bill McGovern is back," Northwestern's delighted students rushed to register for his courses, its delighted professors whisked him off to the University Club to hear his newest adventures...
Meanwhile, all over the land Michigan alumni were agonized by rumors that Chicago's high-scoring high-school hero, Bill de Correvont, No. 1 football prospect for 1938, had intended to enter Michigan this fall, had decided on Northwestern after Coach Kipke was ousted...
ALVIN C. EUKICH, Northwestern University and ELMO C. WILSON, University of Minnesota Co-Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test for the American Council on Education...
Died. Eduardo Justo, 28, son of Argentine President Agustin P. Justo; in an Argentine army plane crackup; near the flooded Itacumbu River in northwestern Uruguay. Eduardo Justo's deathmates: one colonel, three lieutenant colonels, one major, one lieutenant, one radio operator...
Inexact vocabularians have reckoned the average intelligent adult's vocabulary at about 15,000 words. Recently, however, Northwestern University's Psychology Professor Robert Holmes Seashore* devised a scientific test to determine the total number of English words a person would recognize. It is a multiple-choice examination using sample lists of "basic" and "derived" words from Funk & Wagnails' unabridged dictionary, which lists 450,000 words in all. Dr. Seashore's test includes common words as well as puzzlers like antisialogogue (an agent preventing the flow of saliva). Last week he reported the surprising discovery that...