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...Connecticut college got a new president last week. When they heard the news, the students of small, liberal Wesleyan, in Middletown, took 39-year-old Victor Lloyd Butterfield on their shoulders and carried him up College Hill. He succeeds able, popular James L. McConaughy, who resigned last April to continue as president of United China Relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Man in Middletown | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...TIME's top editors today, and we have 14 other Yale men with us now. But we are also indebted to some 50 other Eastern colleges for members of our staff-Columbia (21), Harvard (18), Princeton (6), Dartmouth (5), Pennsylvania (3), Brown (3), Swarthmore (3), Cornell (3)- Williams, Wesleyan, Trinity, Johns Hopkins, Penn State and M.I.T., to name only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 20, 1943 | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...more ways than mere mental training. Chaplain Wilson's education was a preparation for his work in the Army, having worked his way through Illinois Wesleyan receiving his A.R. in '26. He graduated from North Western in '29 with the B.D. degree. Although but 20 years old, he was appointed a student Pastor and discharged these duties with great credit during his Junior and Senior years at College and the entire term of his Seminary studies. Upon graduation he immediately plunged into the active ministry, holding several Pastorates in Illinois. It was during this period that Chaplain Wilson married...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMY CHAPLAINS | 3/26/1943 | See Source »

...Ohio Wesleyan University, Henry Wallace warned that unless the western democracies and Russia got together, there would soon be a World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Who Are the Allies? | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...Idiom. From her tenth year through her 19th, the most formative time of her life, Mei-ling Soong lived in the U.S. While one of her older sisters went to Wesleyan College (Macon, Ga.), she stayed with friends in nearby Piedmont, learning the idiom and the point of view. She bought gumdrops at Hunt's general store with the other girls, and went hazel-nutting with them. She was always the one who was teased, but through the teasing she learned American gags. Later the girls went north to a summer school. A history teacher asked Mei-ling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Madame | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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