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Throughout its 120-year history as a state, Wisconsin has held an improbable rendezvous with the bizarre. It has given the world Thorsten Veblen and the Ringling brothers, Jack Lemmon and Joe McCarthy, Billy Mitchell and Frank Lloyd Wright, Edna Ferber and Harry Houdini. The state's contributions to American education include the first kindergarten and the first panty raid. It is the birthplace of the Gideon Society and the Republican Party...
...Scranton, Pa.; Alan Gilbert '65, of Dudley House and Karachi, Pakistan; Antonio Gilman '65, of Eliot House and Cambridge; David P. Handlin '65, of Adams House and Cambridge; Alan M. Tartakoff '65, of Kirkland House and Cambridge; James L. Turk '65, of Dudley House and Arnold, Pa.; John E. Veblen '65, of Winthrop House and Seattle, Wash.; and Bunil Yang '65, of Dunster House and Levittown, Pa. The Knox winners each receive $3000 to study one year at a University in the British Commonwealth...
Also elected: Jack E. Leonard, of Dunster House, chemistry; Donald G. Marshall, of Leverett House, English, Mark D. Menchik, of Kirkland House, anthropology; Carl R. Sherman, of Dudley House English; Philip G. Stanley, of Leverett House, English; John M. Stevens, of Dunster House, history; John E. Veblen, of Winthrop House, government; and James D. Wilkinson, of Lowell House, history and literature...
...student has assimilated a broad spectrum of knowledge. One question from the sample testing asked the student to identify a quotation "In a flash it came upon me that there was a reason for advancing poverty with advancing wealth . . ." as coming from John Jacob Astor, William Jennings Bryan, Thorstein Veblen, Lincoln Steffens or Henry George. The answer is Henry George, and research showed that more than half the students in the top one-fifth of those taking the test got it right, compared with only 8% of those in the bottom one-fifth...
Other new officers of the Society are: Lionel K. Stapleton '65, vice-president; Bernard B. Rappaport '65, secretary; and John K. Veblen '65, treasurer...