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...President Campbell swayed, tottered. "I am not well," he gasped. Colleagues supported him off the platform, carried him out of the stadium and away from the last commencement exercises at which he will ever officiate. President Campbell will retire June 30; his place will be taken by Robert Gordon Sproul, 39, class of 1913, comptroller of the university. Mr. Sproul will become the second-youngest great university president in the land...
...wanted to see alert, big-voiced Comptroller Sproul, he might be found busy at the university's work on the oak-grown Berkeley campus, or among the broad vineyards at Kearney, or in the fat fields of Davis. As it was when he was comptroller, his task as president will be the administration of a $60,000,000 plant whose holdings include over 13,000 acres, whose annual income is $11,000,000 from state, federal and private sources?California's biggest cultural investment...
Other X supporters: Dr. John Jackson of Greenwich (England) Observatory. who at first was a doubter; Dr. John Anthony Miller of Sproul Observatory, Swarthmore College...
...Green's airport at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, a one hour flight each way. The other flight will in all probability be to either the Worcester or Hartford airport. While the pilots for the flight have not been announced as yet the foremost candidates are: W. N. Bump '29. T. P. Sproul '29, L. D. Parker '31, and P. H. Moon '32. This flying time, plus that of the regular operation at the Boston Airport, should enable the club to maintain its regular fall average of between 70 and 90 hours...
...Travel Air plane was successfully flown to Cambridge from Wichita, Kansas, by W. N. Bump '29 and Frank Sproul '29, Flying Club pilots, a few weeks ago, and now is in action daily flying to and from the Boston Airport. The trip east was executed with no trouble, and without accident, the only delay being a day's stop at Schenectady caused by the wind drifts resulting from the Atlantic seacoast storm...