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...Rockefeller-financed amalgam of three old Negro schools (coeducational Atlanta University, Spelman College for women, Morehouse for men), the new University of Atlanta is one of the proudest centres of Negro education in the U.S. With 1,300 students, $2,000,000 worth of sound buildings and a $7,000,000 endowment fund, Atlanta has had everything but a president since pioneering Dr. John Hope died last year. Last week this want was filled by the election of 37-year-old Dean Rufus Early Clement of Louisville's Municipal College for Negroes...
Horatio William Parker, who belonged to one of New England's proudest families, was born in Auburndale, Mass, in 1863. Until he was 14 young Parker took little interest in music. Within two years he became a church organist in Dedham, later in Roxbury, forsook his job three years later to study at the Hochschule fur Musik in Munich. In 1886 he returned to the U. S. with a Bavarian bride, got organ posts with churches in Brooklyn, Harlem and Manhattan...
...Texas. Their "breaking season," which corresponds to the laying season for hens in the early spring and summer, began early this year because of unseasonable winter laying (TIME, Feb. 1). Biggest U. S. egg freezers are Standard Brands and Ovson Egg Co. of Chicago, a National Dairy subsidiary. Proudest is Ovson's of the "Ovson process." Russian-born President Morris Ovson, now 53, has been in the frozen egg business since 1902, when he went to work for Boston Eggman H. J. Keith. One of the first packers to experiment with egg freezing, Keith sent Ovson to China...
...Pablo Casals. After Toscanini takes the orchestra to Jerusalem, Haifa, Cairo and Alexandria this season, Issay Dobrowen, former conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, Hans Wilhelm Steinberg, onetime director of the Frankfort Opera, and Michael Taube, former leader of famed German ensembles, will replace him on Jewry's proudest podium...
...Madison's and Wisconsin's two first citizens, living in the proudest houses in town, Governor La Follette and President Frank politely called on each other, pleasantly nodded at Badger football games. Governor Phil, worldly wise, did not share the resentment of many a rural legislator at President Frank's suavity, his well pressed clothes, the fact that he spoke with a soft cultivation belying his birthplace, Queen City, Mo. And as Phil had been the youngest U. S. Governor, so Glenn Frank had been (until Chicago's Hutchins) the youngest chief executive of a major...