Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Benjamin E. Bensinger, wife of the president of Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. (pool tables, phonographs); of heart disease; at the Lake Shore Country Club (Ravinia,Ill.).
¶ President Ernest Martin Hopkins had a stern welcome prepared for Dartmouth freshmen. Said he, in the convocation ad dress: "College officers are forced to hold due reservation and to remain only mildly impressed by eloquent contentions that colleges exist solely to satisfy the wishes of the undergraduates. . . . What seems...
¶ Two years ago at the University of Wisconsin Prof. Alexander Meiklejohn, one-time Amherst President, began an "experimental" college. His freshmen were to study only Periclean culture, his sophomores U. S. history, sociology. From the experimental college they were to enter the University's junior class (TIME, June...
¶ Few Princeton men do not know John Gale Hun, who conducts in Princeton a school for young children, another school for "cramming" college entrance candi dates, and a third for "cramming" under graduates. So aware of Hun aid was one Princetonian, according to legend, that, upon graduating, he asked...
¶ At Chicago University, the president's house was not in commission. So Presi dent Robert Maynard Hutchins, 30, obtained from Yale last June, to be inducted in November, is living temporarily as the house guest of Harold Higgins Swift, potent meat packer and Chicago Trustee. A studio for...