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This year Democrats naturally lead. Because of "pressure of affairs" President Roosevelt declined a Rutgers LL.D. but last week Secretaries Dern, Ickes. Perkins and Woodin had time to receive degrees (see below), the last after Syracuse Uni-versity had done some careful pondering. Its College of Fine Arts, oldest of its kind in the U. S., was celebrating its 60th anniversary. It had never given a degree to a nonprofessional, but at last it decided Secretary Woodin is a composer "of high merit." Secretary Wallace was to give the commencement address, nationally broadcast, at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa). Speaker...
...despite his insight into conditions, he declares: "I feel no call to remedy evils. I have not the slightest urge to be a reformer. Social workers make me very weary. They have no sense of humor." In 1923 he transferred as an associate professor of government to Columbia Uni- versity where he had got his Ph.D. five years before. In 1928 he was made a professor of public law. To the girls of Barnard College he taught government and politics in a humorous, informal way that charmed most of them. They also liked his after-class teas...
Said President Hutchins: "Although there have been many educational films before, this is the first organized large-scale effort on the part of a single uni-versity to make them.- And it fits very nicely into what you might call our 'experimental tradition.' But we aren't going into the entertainment business. We aren't trying to jazz up education...
...votes among "For," "Against" and "Modification," this one was limited to "For" or "Against" the 18th Amendment. ¶ After discovering 100 cases of liquor and a sub-calibre machine gun in a dwelling house, Federal Prohibition agents in New Orleans last week arrested Charles Genard, onetime halfback at Loyola Uni-versity (New Orleans), sought his brother, Dominick. president of Loyola's freshman class, and their father. College officials were amazed to learn that the Genard family was accused of being affiliated with a liquor syndicate operating along the Louisiana coast. ¶ After purchasing three quarts of anti-freeze liquid...
...Columbia's great summer school. Dr. Butler secured for Columbia the well-endowed Pulitzer School of Journalism, whence emerge the yearly Pulitzer Prizes. The University jointly with the Presbyterian Hospital owns the Medical Center, is related to many a hospital, museum and laboratory. Also there is the famed Uni-versity Extension of home study which adds 4,939 corresponding students to Columbia's rolls. Centres for study as well as cultural life are the Deutsches Haus, Maison Franchise, Casa Italiana, Casa de las Espanas, Japanese Culture Centre. Newest agency in Columbia's expansion is a projected $20,000,000 -Engineering...