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Class B contestants number 278, entered by Arlington, Belmont, Beverly, Concord, David Prouty of Spencer, Fairhaven, Haverhill, Leominster, Lexington, Malden, Mariborough, Methuen, Milton, Needham, Newburyport, Quincy, Salem, Somerville, Taunton, Wakefield, Watertown, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn, and Worcester Commerce High Schools...
Died. Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, 85, educator, author; in Chicago...
...college, the most important are often unheralded and obscure except to trustees or faculty members. Many people who know the name of the President of the University of Chicago, most people who know the names of its leading athletes have never heard the name of Dr. Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed. It belonged to a wise & able man who died last week when he was 85 years...
...Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed graduated from the University of Chicago, then a small Baptist institution, in 1862. In the years that followed, the University of Chicago crumbled slowly; in 1886, the year after Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed went back to become a Doctor of Divinity, it became extinct. This made Dr. Goodspeed sad and thoughtful; he saw the need for a successor to his small and defunct alma mater, a successor which should be larger, intellectually more potent, better endowed, nonsectarian. He therefore went to John Davison Rockefeller, in 1889 already a famed financier, and explained to him why Chicago needed...
...religion. Mr. Croy is the herald of a replacing social philosophy. This theory is especially interesting when he declares that Sinclair Lewis is not the only thinker to share it: rather, almost all the young American intelligentsia, even including members of the clergy like a John Haynes Holmes and Wakefield Sinten, are his comrades...