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When these ten men have been elected, according to the new plan the Student Council Representatives on Freshman affairs "shall then be empowered to assign the elected members to the two Committees, to appoint the remaining members of each Committee, and to select a Chairman of each Committee from the complete membership...
...Ohio State is a member of the Association of American Universities, the nation's top-notch rating group whose select circle includes only thirty-odd universities and whose standards of admission and tenure are high and strict. Yet, during the recent holidays, Ohio State was host and manager, for the third time, of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Yet, just before your article was written, Ohio State professors were named to head three nationally distinguished groups: the American Botanical Society, the American Association for Applied Psychology and the American Chemical Society. This...
...more complicated political system could be devised than U. S. Presidential primaries, which are held in 15 or 16 of the 48 States. In these primaries the people ostensibly select delegates who will go to the Party convention, there vote for the man they are "instructed" to nominate for President. These delegates are supposedly bound to keep on voting for The People's choice until he is nominated or hopelessly out of the race.* In most States, both parties are content to leave political maneuvering up to State conventions, let them pick what delegates they please to send...
...this week's Republican primary to select a successor to Chester Bolton, his widow, Frances Payne Bingham Bolton, who campaigned for him since 1932, is unopposed. After the special election late this month observers expect the title "richest man in Congress" to pass to Frances Payne Bingham Bolton, 54, mother of three grown sons. Supposed to be even wealthier than her late husband, Mrs. Bolton is the rich and comely daughter of a pioneer Cleveland banker and industrialist, granddaughter of Senator Henry B. Payne. She gave $2,250,000 for Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Western Reserve...
Last week, at the select Racquet & Tennis Club in Manhattan, 14 of the leading U. S. amateurs and world pros went after the prized Clarence C. Pell Cup for 1940. In the semifinal, Canadian Pro Kenneth Chantler disposed of Norbert Seltzer, Rac quet & Tennis Club professional. In the other bracket, Amateur Grant faced tough Tony Bertolotti, another Racquet & Tennis Club hired hand. Grant breezed through two games, 15-2, 15-4, had Bertolotti down 11-4 in the clinching game when the two collided. Grant came up game, but with a strained ankle. Then Bertolotti, who might have gone...