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...John Rainey McGinley, of Milton. Massachusetts, has been added to the list of Sophomore nominees for the office of Class Secretary...
...collected $400,000 more. With this the new University of Chicago was established; Dr. Goodspeed was made secretary of the board of trustees, then registrar, then corresponding secretary. Dr. Goodspeed wrote three books about his college. When he died last week he had almost finished a biography of William Rainey Harper, first president of the university which, without Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, probably could never have existed...
...trouble began with "The Star Spangled Banner." A lubberly, stoop-shouldered, churlish boy, one Ralph Esposito, refused to sing it. So his teacher sent him to Principal William M. Rainey's office.* The boy went, but would give no satisfactory explanation of his stubbornness. "Well," said Principal Rainey, "do you want to put on the boxing gloves with one of the other boys? Or do you want me to make your mother come to school?" The boy shook his head against boxing. "See, that proves that he is yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts...
...police magistrate dismissed the disorderly conduct case against Principal Rainey. But William J. O'Shea superintendent of New York schools, ordered him to cease his ordeal-by-boxing at once...
...modest demurrer" to a Times editorial belaboring the U. S. tendency to select its college presidents for various educational virtues-but not for scholarship. This correspondent gently pointed to President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard; to one-time (1899-1921) President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale; to William Rainey Harper, first president of University of Chicago; to David Starr Jordan, onetime (1891-1913) president of Stanford University; to Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- dent of Columbia University; to several others as scholar presidents. This correspondent was President of Yale University, James Rowland Angell...