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...Antioch, Ashland, Bluffton, Capital, Defiance, Denison, Findlay, Heidelberg, Hiram, Kenyon, Lake Erie, Mount Union, Muskingum, Notre Dame College, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan, Otterbein, Western and Wooster...
During the 'thirties, however, several things began to complicate the picture. First, excellent state universities like Michigan, Illinois, and California, as well as private colleges like Stanford and Oberlin--grew in academic stature and thus gained appeal for men across the country. At first, Harvard, with her tremendously strong reputation could ignore the competition. Armed with National Scholarships, Harvard could continue to push for a national college without any real worries of having to step up recruiting...
...usual, the statesmen were prominently represented. Governor Earl Warren of California won a Doctorate of Political Science from the University of Alaska. Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois got LL.D.s from both Ohio's Oberlin College and Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Western Reserve in Ohio honored two Senators: Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Ohio's Robert A. Taft...
During the 'thirties, however, several things began to complicate the picture. First, excellent state universities like Michigan, Illinois, and California, as well as private colleges like Stanford and Oberlin--grew in academic stature and thus gained appeal for men across the country. At first, Harvard, with her tremendously strong reputation could ignore the competition. Armed with National Scholarships, Harvard could continue to push for a national college without any worries of having to step up recruiting appreciably...
...news follows by a day the disclosure in Cambridge that 87 Harvard faculty members had taken similar action. Hence both letters were probably sent at about the same time. Some correspondence between various Eastern colleges is indicated by the fact that similar petitions have been circulated at Columbia, N.Y.U., Oberlin, Yale, and Rutgers...