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...were reinstated. One of these was Dr. Pearson. In an attempt to restore peace among the bird-lovers, he established a committee of three to investigate the charges made against him. On the committee are Chauncey J. Hamlin, onetime chairman of the National Conference on Outdoor Recreation; Alexander Grant Ruthven, president of the University of Michigan; Dr. Thomas Barbour, curator of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology...
Disappointed at the selection were friends of Maj.-Generals John Leonard Hines, William Lassiter, Hanson Edward Ely, Fred Winchester Sladen, William Ruthven Smith, who all outrank General MacArthur in seniority and who all will retire within 18 months, never to have a chance to be full generals. The proud & pleased friends of General MacArthur pointed out that his youth is an advantage, that since the office was created in 1903 seven Chiefs of Staff have been advanced to it over their seniors' heads...
President Alexander Grant Ruthven...
Busybodied newsmen dug up the Cagle marriage certificate. Cadet Cagle was in the infirmary after a tonsillectomy last week when his perjury was reported to Maj.General William Ruthven Smith, Academy superintendent. Within 30 minutes Cadet Cagle was again plain Mr. Cagle. General Smith let him resign instead of courtmartialing...
...Military Academy at West Point last week let out 64 cadets deficient in studies. At the station, Major General William Ruthven Smith, superintendent of the Academy, bade them goodbye, wished them success. All were still in uniform as they passed through Manhattan on their way home, but newsgatherers had no trouble in singling out the one they were looking for; a tall, broad-shouldered boy of 20 whose face was darker than the dark brown-paper bundle under his arm. He was Alonzo Souleigh Parham, the fourteenth Negro to enter West Point, the eleventh to leave before graduation...