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...Undergraduate Committee has also received the name of Laurence Buckmaster, sole delegate from Northwestern. This boosts the total number of delegates now pledged to 27, with more names coming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tercentenary Column | 5/6/1936 | See Source »

...become superintendent since the post was created in 1854. Son of a Danish grocer, he swept high-school classrooms, did odd jobs, saved enough money to go to Beloit College where, as an assistant in the chemistry laboratory, he "mixed the drinks for the boys to analyze." Switching to Northwestern, he studied education, had a rapid succession of jobs that landed him in Chicago as an elementary-school principal. When he asked for a high-school principalship last year, the Board of Education made him assistant superintendent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Superintendent in Chicago | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Biggest attraction of the Drake Relays, as usual, was Queen of the Relays. This year she was 20-year-old, blue-eyed Jane Mareton Phelps, daughter of Vice President Zack Phelps of Krebs Pigment Co., an E. I. du Pont de Nemours subsidiary. Queen Phelps is a junior at Northwestern, where she studies music, collects old bottles, broods over her two greatest ambitions : a big wedding, a big family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Relays | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...gang at the front gate-which included a student railroad ticket salesman from Wabash College, the opera salesmen and two students from Northwestern University who took the opera tickets at the gate-was talking things over when a small Italian boy came running up to us almost out of breath. He was so excited that for a minute he could say nothing, but after a rest he told us what had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Then one of the cocky Northwestern students completely crushed the little fellow by saying, "You darn fool, you should have taken the dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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