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...although California's energetic Sproul or Chicago's youthful Hutchins or Columbia's voluble Butler might go out to have a word with the football team, it is almost unknown for Princeton's quiet, academic Dr. John Grier Hibben to do so. What he told the varsity squad was simple. He said that the unprecedented series of defeats which Princeton has suffered this fall (from Brown, Cornell, Navy) indicated that Princeton had hit bottom. Logically he prophesied that in the remaining games (with Chicago, Lehigh, Yale) the team was bound to do better. When...
...Glass Man would pay his cigar bills? . . . What'll y'bet that Yolande Lossee of the Club Calais, and one of John W. Davis' nevviews ankled up a secret altar Satdee and then parted? . . . And that the late Andrew Carnegie's nevview Harry Sproul Jr. of the Racquet & Tennis Club, was welded in the shhh! manner to Annette Boudreau of Ottawa on May 16th? . . . A certain husband is marking time so he can trap his sqaw and her well-known pash in a public place and then disgrace them out loud...
...seek re-election for the third time against Jonathan McMillan Davis, onetime (1923-25) Democratic Governor. Republican Senator Henry Justin Allen, good Hoover friend, appointed last year by Governor Clyde Martin Reed to the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Curtis, won the senatorial nomination over Representative William Henry Sproul et al for the short term...
Unlike his predecessor, President-Elect Sproul is no schoolman, no scholar, no holder of learned degrees. His business, which he entered the year he graduated from the institution, is the commerce of education...
Scope. Well acquainted is Comptroller Sproul with the magnitude of his institution's academic and student population. California, the nation's largest residence institution, employs 2,866 pedagogs and officers to educate and manage its 26,111 graduate and undergraduate students in winter and summer sessions at Berkeley, at Los Angeles (under a director appointed by the president), at San Francisco, at Davis, La Jolla, Riverside, Meloland, Kearney, Mt. Hamilton. When he or she enters the university, each young Californian may choose from the curricula of 25 schools and colleges for preparation toward a career...