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...small, co-educational college, until recently distinguished chiefly for its football teams. Two years ago Bucknell, which, like every other college, craves a money raiser as its president, made a remarkable capture. As acting president it acquired slim, square-jawed Arnaud Cartwright Marts, a graduate of Oberlin College. Arnaud Marts had raised $1,000,000 for Bucknell in his spare time. All told he had pried from philanthropists no less than $200,000,000 for colleges, hospitals, religious institutions...
Calculus theories and geometrical figures are the latest thing in intercollegiate competition. From official sources at Oberlin College comes the assertion that number one battle among mathematical sharks takes place in April...
George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, has accepted the invitation of President Ernest Hatch Wilkins of Oberlin College, to deliver the Commencement address there next June, it was announced yesterday, John Edgar Park, President of Wheaton College, will give the Baccalaureate Sermon at the exercises...
...conferred with Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln, preached in most of the cathedrals of England and turned down the bishopric of the Sandwich Islands because he thought his work in Minnesota needed him more. Born in upper New York State in 1822, Whipple studied in the abolitionist hotbed of Oberlin Institute, married at 20, became a "rational abolitionist," a conservative Democrat, a politician, a businessman, before his wife persuaded him to take Holy Orders...
Harry March once liked football go much that he sample under assumed names at four schools, Ohio State, Oberlin, Kenyen College, and Mount Union College. He gave his first name at Columbian (now George Washington University) and took and M.D. in 1901. Unlike many tramp football stars, Dr. March had a sharp and restless mind. He established a good medical practice, but kept his thoughts in the pigskin world by writing sport stories. The idea of writing he received for Authors Channing Pollack and Don Marquis, his Columbia roommates...