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...Francisco next September he will head a new "Adult Center for Social Studies." No entrance requirements will be set, no credits will be given. Dr. Meiklejohn will help radicals, businessmen, teachers, artists, laborers, preachers and scientists in scrutinizing contemporary civilization and its problems. Presidents Sproul of California. Wilbur of Stanford and Reinhardt of Mills endorse the plan. But most notable is the list of tycoons who sponsor it. Some years ago the University of California board of regents, heavily influenced by utility men. voted not to let "Radical" Meiklejohn speak to the students. Deeply chagrined were many liberals, including...
California's tall, blond President Robert Gordon Sproul, who usually speaks in a booming voice, commented warily: "I should prefer, of course, that athletes should come to the University without any solicitation whatever, even on the basis of the superior educational advantages we have to offer. The fact is, however, that high school stars are seldom, if ever, permitted to select a college or university on any such basis. ... I shall watch . . . with interest and hope...
...University of Cincinnati, President Frank Parker Day of Union College, Dean Frances Burlingame of Elmira College. President Aydelotte introduced scholarships of a Rhodes type at Swarthmore, doubled the number for next year hoping to get more and abler students. Among Swarthmore alumni are onetime Governors Sweet of Colorado, Sproul of Pennsylvania, Alice Paul of the National Woman's Party, onetime Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer. Swarthmore has produced no Einstein. That is what Frank Aydelotte wants to do next...
DEATH AND THE PROFESSORS-Kathleen Sproul-Dutton...
...trust fund. Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 80; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 75; Senator James Eli Watson of Indiana, 68; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir, 31. Died. Frances Burnett, 22, vanilla extract scioness; Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr., 29, Boston socialite, president of Skyways, Inc.; and Frank Penrose Sproul, 25, Harvardman, assistant manager of Skyways, Inc.; instantly, when Ames's cabin monoplane went into a tail spin at a height of 2,500 ft., crashed in a field; in Randolph, Mass. Died. Sidney Wilmot Winslow III, 24, Harvardman, son of the president of United Shoe Machinery Corp...