Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Induction. A block east of the dun-colored house provided for the University of Chicago's president (in the barn of which Mrs. Hutchins will sculp and not keep an automobile), facing the broad Midway across the street from John D. Rockefeller's $1,500,000 chapel, stands Ida Noyes...
Of the 150,000 children born on earth each day,* at least 200 who live will be blind. The League of Red Cross Societies figures 2,390,000 blind in the world, 105,000 of them in the U. S. China, with the greatest population, has the most blind. Dr...
Replied President Hutchins: "No man can come to the presidency of the University of Chicago without being awed by the University and its past. . . . We are studying and propose to study problems that do not fit readily into the traditional departmental pattern of a university. . . . What is clear is that...
*Chicago's forte is research and post-graduate work. Half its graduates go forth as preachers and pedagogs; 119 of them have become college presidents. Last week University of Chicago students voted the Bible their Favorite Book. More than 40% of the enrolment are graduate students. President Hutchins says: "A...
To reduce such numbers and prevent blindness in at least the U. S., the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness met at St. Louis last week. William Howard Taft is honorary president of the Society; William Fellowes Morgan, Manhattan cold storage tycoon, president; Lewis Herbert Carris, managing director. Most...