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Every good college has its Grand Old Man, its patriarch. So necessary is he as an object of veneration, as an oracle, as a figure about whom to swap reunion anecdotes, that if a college did not have a patriarch it would soon invent one. Last week, having reached the halfway mark on a world cruise, Yale's Grand Old Man -President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley-died in Kobe, Japan. With Chauncey Mitchell Depew two years in his grave, with William Howard Taft dead two days later, the end of President Emeritus Hadley left Yale for the present without...
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...Ardsley, N. Y., Mrs. Oliver J. Vetiano said she awoke to find, not her husband, but his best friend, John Condon, standing beside her bed. He was dressed in pajamas and said: "It's all right. Don't make a fuss. Your husband and I made a swap. We understand each other." Mrs. Vetiano made a fuss, but not Mrs. Condon...
...kinds of faculty members: the teaching professors and the research professors. Dear to the heart of the undergraduate is many a teaching professor. Him they afterward remember for what little light and learning they possess, and also for his eccentricities, for good fellowship. When they grow old they swap anecdotes about him; if they become Trustees they like to see him prosper in his fashion. But the research professors, who sometimes regard the civilizing of students as a vague, even faintly vulgar waste of time, are the darlings of their erudite colleagues and often of the president, who feels...
Senator Reed, through his Secretary Huntley, sent a conciliatory message to the Press Gallery inviting correspondents to meet him for a discussion of "newspaper ethics ... to swap viewpoints." Fifty newsmen signed a retort that they would not confer with him, that they preferred to hear this "thoughts on newspaper ethics" from the Senate floor where he had referred to "the so-called ethics of a so-called profession...