Word: olivet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They will speak at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, on March 31; Olivet-Nazarene College at Kankakee, Illinois, on April 2; Bradley University, at Peoria, Illinois, on April 3; and Illinois College, of Jacksonville, Illinois, on April...
...brief period in the '20s, when some of his novels became bestsellers in the U.S., he sank more & more into the twilight of Parisian cocktail parties and U.S. college lecture platforms ("an old man mad about writing," he once described himself). As a lecturer at Michigan's Olivet College in the '30s, he reminded one student of Tristram Shandy's garrulous Uncle Toby-a "vast, benevolent and harmless Uncle Toby, leaning on his stick . . . and wheezing out his stories of Henry James as Toby might have spoken of Marlborough. His books seemed [to us] like medals...
Cigar-puffing President Aubrey L. Ashby of tiny Olivet College, Mich., likes to call his administration "a period of sanitation." Called in two years ago to put Olivet back on its financial feet, he determined to rid the campus of its reputation for leftist-pacifist leanings (TIME, Jan. 24, 1949). In doing so, he raised a bigger academic rumpus than most presidents could raise in a lifetime...
...National Broadcasting Co. vice president, started in by firing four teachers. In the next few hectic months twelve others (including Economist Tucker Smith, 1948 Socialist candidate for Vice President of the U.S.) quit in protest, and 110 out of 297 students left the campus. But after the first flurry, Olivet began to settle back to normalcy...