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Long also wanted to make young Dr. Vidrine professor of surgery in Tulane, but Tulane's faculty laughed Long out of that University. In revenge Long enlarged the rival medical school of the Uni-versity of Louisiana and made Dr. Vidrine dean there...
...Philadelphia last week the Indiana Uni versity team of Melvern Trutt, Jimmy Smith, Tommy Deckard and Don Lash, of which only Lash was an outstanding miler, cut this world's record by 1.1 sec. Out standing individual performance of the four was that of unheralded Negro Jimmy Smith, who covered his mile in 4:14. At the Penn Relays a total of six meet records was set, of which one, in the Class B mile relay, was set by Elmer & Delmer Brown, with their teammates Johnny Stovall and Alvin Chrisman, a twin whose brother is no runner. Most famed...
...were private schools taken over when they succumbed to financial difficulties. The Col lege of Charleston (S. C.), founded in 1770 and under city control since 1837, is in point of age Louisville's chief rival. The University of Akron (1913) was once a Universalist college. The Municipal Uni versity of Omaha (1931) was founded as a non-sectarian institution by Rev. Daniel Jenkins, a Presbyterian minister, for Omahans who did not want to go to Jesuit Creighton University. The other municipal universities had various origins. The University of the City of Toledo grew out of a manual training...
...long ago to bring new blood to the white fane on Washington's Mount St. Alban-Rev. Dr. Noble Cilley Powell of Baltimore. Alabama-born 45 years ago, handsome Noble Powell was an entomologist, investigating the boll weevil for the Department of Agriculture, before he went to the Uni-versity of Virginia and Virginia Theological Seminary, became a priest in 1921. As rector of St. Paul's Memorial Church near Charlottesville and Episcopal chaplain at the university, he missionized among both students and hillbillies in the nearby Ragged Mountains. For the past five years the highly successful rector...
...committee for further study, and many a shrewd merchant privately declared that that would be the last ever heard of it. Even then the retailers did not go home. On the next day they witnessed the distribution of prizes in a "better-selling contest" conducted by the New York Uni-versity School of Retailing. On hand to present the prizes was one of the contest's judges, Chairman Samuel Wallace Reyburn of Associated Dry Goods Corp. (not to be confused with the Texas Congressman, Sam Rayburn...