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Married. Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 54, kinetic president of U.S. Steel, son of an Ohio miner ; and Hazel Hatfield Sproul, 44, daughter of West Virginia's onetime Governor Henry Hatfield, descendant of the feuding Hatfields (v. McCoys) , mother-in-law of President Fairless' son, Navy Lieut. Elaine Fairless ; both for the second time; in Huntington, W. Va. Lieut. and Mrs. Fairless attended the bridal couple...
Significant words were spoken last week by the businesslike head of a businesslike U.S. university. Said President Robert Gordon Sproul (rhymes with owl) of the University of California: "About 50 years ago, under the leadership of President Eliot of Harvard University, higher education swung over almost completely to the free elective system, and primary and secondary education transferred control of the school in large part from the teachers to the pupils. Students of all ages were encouraged to follow their highly efficient noses into snap courses and vocational courses, into courses that came in the afternoon and thus permitted long...
Since booming President Sproul's booming university has long made it a policy to offer just about as many courses as can be had anywhere, with great latitude of student choice, his remarks may indicate a decided change in his university's educational policies...
...Please accept my thanks along with those of the whole West Coast for this forward step," wired Los Angeles aviation tycoon "Dutch" Kindelberger. "Good news indeed," echoed University of California President Robert G. Sproul. "I hope other publishers will accept the challenge...
...affair was clumsily handled by the fumbling War Relocation Authority. Pro-U.S. Japs suffered from the Tule trouble. Almost their only defender has been the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play. Among its board members: the University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul; Stanford's former President Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur; the University of Oregon's President Donald Erb; Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Robert A. Millikan. But when the Fair Play Committee's Pasadena chapter distributed Private Borchers' letter to the Legion, it promptly got itself "investigated" last week...