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Upset in their last game, 40-28, by Indiana's erratic team, Ohio was forced to share with Northwestern the Big Ten championship after most observers had practically conceded them the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

High scorer in the Big Ten this year is Joe Reiff, Northwestern forward, who helps pay his way through college by sweeping out the lobby of Patten Gymnasium at 40? an hour. In last week's closing game against Minnesota that later gave Northwestern its tie with Ohio State in the Conference, Reiff's 20 points brought his record for the season to 167-13 more than the Conference record of 154 made by Purdue's Johnny Wooden a year ago. Ohio State's 6-ft.-4-in. Centre Hosket is a less spectacular player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...life insurance companies have invested in U. S. farm mortgages, $455,834,078 was sunk into the black soil of Iowa. Iowa farm mortgage holdings of the principal life insurance companies: Equitable of New York, $90,040,095; Metropolitan, $64,422,538; Equitable of Iowa, $50,098,679; Northwestern Mutual, $40,809,401; Bankers of Iowa, $35,130,952; Mutual Benefit, $34,859,529; John Hancock, $33,251,749; Prudential, $26,059,391; Aetna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Mortgage Respite | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

...conditions wouldn't be what they are. But in times of prosperity no one will listen to a professor because he isn't prosperous. In times of Depression he's told that he's rocking the boat if he talks." Dean Ralph Emerson Heilman of Northwestern nodded: "Surely. Some professors are meddlers and busybodies, just as some financiers are crooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Oldster's Blast | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

Last week the student council of Northwestern University reported unfavorably on a proposal to embrace the honor system. Midwestern students are not yet ready for it, said Councilman Hollis Peck, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. "They're a motley crew, without the faintest notion of what honor is in respect to school work. At the University of Virginia the student body follows the honor system successfully, for Virginians are born gentlemen. Princeton and other eastern schools also have students of integrity who respect the honor system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Northwestern's Honor | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

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