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...Kikuyu tribesmen in British East Africa's Kenya Colony, was a good dancer in his youth but he never learned to read & write. Last week Mbiyu Wa Koinange, who will soon succeed his aged father as chief of the Kikuyus, got his A. B. degree at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio...
Trouble with English kept his marks low at Ohio Wesleyan for two more years, forced him to bolster his scholarships by cooking for a professor. Then, mastering English, he made money by lecturing on Africa before Ohio lunch clubs and church groups, finished his course with a creditable record. A devout Episcopalian, he has been active in Y. M. C. A. and student welfare work, once served as president of Cosmopolitan Clubs in 17 Ohio colleges including...
...appearance of a petition on the Amherst College campus. At Princeton, the Princetonian started a petition, got over 1,000 names. "Metrotone Newsreels," charged Editor William Arthur Carlile Jr., lifting a Hearstian phrase, "spread subversive, un-American propaganda." Last week, as agitation sprang up at Harvard, Dartmouth, Vassar and Wesleyan, Princeton's Garden Theatre broke its Metrotone contract...
...Everett Ross Clinchy, tall, quiet Presbyterian. Schooled at Yale, Columbia, Union Theological Seminary and Wesleyan, he specialized in sociology. In his late 30's, he is popular among students...
After graduation from Wesleyan University in 1862, he taught school, investing his savings on the side. About the time that Grant was fighting it out in the Wilderness, Andrus bought ten shares of Singer Manufacturing Co. stock at $65 per share. He used Singer dividends to buy more Singer stock and by 1928 his Singer holdings were worth...