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...comfortable presidential house, DePauw's presidents consistently resign to become Methodist bishops. Of the six head men DePauw has elected since 1903, four hastily left it in the lurch as soon as Methodism's General Conference beckoned. Last of these was liberal, orotund G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam, newly installed Methodist Bishop of the Iowa and Nebraska area (TIME...
When Methodism's Senior Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, himself a Deauw deserter: Publisher Kenneth DePauw Craven ("Casey") Hogate of the Wall Street Journal and onetime (1928-29) Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West met early this month in Manhattan to name Dr. Oxnam's successor, many a DePauw alumnus hoped they would see fit to break precedent, choose a layman. Instead they retired in silence. Last week the committee reassembled in Indianapolis, announced the selection of another Methodist minister. He was Dr. Clyde Everett Wildman, Professor of Old Testament history and religion at Boston University...
Yale defeated Columbia in baseball Saturday by the score of 15 to 5. Jackson and Pratt pitched for Yale, and Tilt and Oxnam for Columbia...