Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Election. A hot contest,waged by badges, buttons and posters, for the Association presidency between supporters of Uel W. Lamkin, President of Northwestern Missouri State Teachers' College, and of Dr. Francis G. Blair, State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Illinois, was won by the latter...
...they appealed to their alumni, to love's of learning in general. A summary of sixty-eight such drives shows total receipts of $149,391,142 no inconsiderable sum. Harvard leads the list with $13,931,780. Princeton is second with $9,902,904 and is closely followed by Northwestern, Hampton-Tuskegee and the University of Chicago. The average of the sixty-eight drives is $2,196,928. This sum is less impressive, but the shock comes with the analysis of separate contributions, which is thus summed up. "Alumni do not play as important a giving part as sometimes believed...
...Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue, Wisconsin...
Friends and officials of Northwestern University assembled at the north edge of Chicago to lay and dedicate four cornerstones of a new unit of that thriving institution, whose headquarters are farther up Lake Michigan, at Evanston, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. George Alexander McKinlock had given the campus in memory of their warrior son.. Mrs. Montgomery Ward had given a medical-dental centre, a 14-story Gothic building, in memory of her merchant (mailorder) husband. The widow of Levy Mayer, famed attorney, had given a hall of law. Judge Elbert H. (U. S. Steel) Gary of Manhattan had given...
President George L. Mackintosh of Wabash College, extended his retrospect, to cover the whole 20 years of his administration, for he had resigned (voluntarily), and would soon be succeeded by Dr. Louis B. Hopkins, personnel director of Northwestern University. Dr. E. G. Cutshall of West Virginia Wesleyan (Buckhannon, W. Va.) was to be succeeded by Dr. Homer B. Wark of Boston University...